Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsec-filter-caps (Filtering and Rate Limiting Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure) to BCP

[Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>]

On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Ross Callon wrote:

> At this point I think that I have a pretty good idea how Barry and  
> Danny
> feel about the "informational vs BCP" choice.
>
> Does anyone else have a strong opinion on this issue?
>
> Do service providers feel that this would effect how they would use  
> the
> resulting RFC? I am suspecting that vendors will pay attention or not
> pay attention to the OPSEC capabilities drafts based on to what extent
> the service providers ask them to.

I do not believe that what the document is published as matters one  
iota -- to me the value in this document is that I have something to  
wave at a vendor and say "Can you do this? If so I'll buy your shiny  
box, if not, I won't". I cannot see a vendor claiming that, just  
because the document was published as a $STATUS they have decided  
that it isn't worth their time (but maybe I am just being naive...)

I believe that having the document available to be used is more  
important than what it is published as and support just getting it  
done.,,

W

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