Subject: Re: [Speermint] Re-making or Un-making the PSTN

From: Sukanta ganguly <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:42:33 -0700 (PDT)

I second that. If we define something which is un-usable for the businesses then the whole value of defining a standard is beaten. We do noat have to go to a 100% consensus building model, but a majority of the standard should be implementable and deployable. There is nothing wrong with having extensions defined and developed for particular cases, but they are extensions and not the core.

SG 

----- Original Message ----
From: Medhavi Bhatia <[email-masked]>
To: Otmar Lendl <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Speermint] Re-making or Un-making the PSTN

We have to be aware that the protocols and standards we here in the IETF
define will not per se define what the industry does. Each carrier will 
by itself decide whether to adopt the proposed solution.

It may well be that we come up with a great proposal which would
revolutionize the landscape and everybody will live happy ever after.
But unless this system yields immediate benefits for the first handful 
of operators which decide to implement it, no one will make the plunge.

In this case, carriers will not switch to open peering as that
implies a loss of termination fee revenue. That would not matter
if *everybody* moved to open peering at the same time. 

I think there is something wrong in this argument, even though it sounds quite practical. The flaw seems to me that we are creating a vicious circle here. Once the standard is there, it creates more incentives for the industry to use it and spiral downwards. Business models which use the technology only become more ingrained and "solid". 

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