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Re: Windows 2000 and Cicsco router interoperability



Hi Jan,

Jan Vilhuber wrote:
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> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Scott G. Kelly wrote:
> > Actually, I think the entire point of the various user auth proposals
> > are to create the minimal necessary and sufficient *subset* of the
> > functionality present in ppp and l2tp in order to enable secure remote
> > access.
> >
> However, experience has shown, that when you trim down and think you can
> offer the trimmed down version to customers, they usually say: Cool. This is
> great. Can it also do <foo>? Where foo is usually something that your concept
> was precisely designed NOT to do...
> 
> Trimming down, in my opinion, is a bad choice, if you already have a
> mechanism that does the superset. People invariably will want all features
> of the superset in the subset (which by definition means you've just
> reinvented the superset).
> 

Okay, this brings us back to a question I raised last week which remains
unanswered. We have a requirements document. Most of the functionality
provided by ppp and l2tp is not listed in that document. Your argument
implies that the document is deficient in this regard. Please enumerate
what requirements are missing from that document, as it is very
important that we reach consensus on requirements before we attempt to
select a solution.

Scott


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