"Kipp E.B. Hickman" says:
In any case, my personal opinion is that NCOM is being attacked with a catch-22. If we had kept the protocol proprietary, then we would have been shot. We went public with it and are getting shot. If we had waited the 2.5 years to develop it, as a few here would seem to be advocating, then the market would shoot us.
This is a false dichotomy -- there are far more possibilities than that. I pillory you not for being non-public but for being non-intelligent. You could have bothered to read the literature and designed something useful given an understanding of what came before (your naive notion that somehow IPSP might require router modifications would have been dispelled had you bothered to spend the half hour needed to read and understand the proposals) or you could have gone to the IETF and gotten everything done very fast if you'd bothered to use the system right. As it stands you come off looking like ignorant blunderers. .pm