Good intent and somewhat competent

[Dorian R. Kim]

Karl, cisco's corporate stupidity and those BCPs do not have anything to do
with each other, and furthermore, this discussion is off topic for this list.

-dorian

On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:

> Vhen vendors drive BCPs and policies to protect the sale of their own
> product which won't live *WITHOUT* those documents, I Don't think this is
> off-topic in the least.
>
> There's no conspiracy here -- CISCO and the backbone engineers have AGREED
> IN THE PAST that the netwrok wouldn't have survived DUE TO THESE LIMITS
> if CIDR wasn't adopted.
>
> That CISCO then went on to produce TWO product lines which incorporated the
> same flaw in their design is a fact.