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From: LYNCH@A.ISI.EDU (Dan Lynch)
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Subject: RE: DOD ---> CMOT VERSUS SNMP
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Date: 17 Sep 89 16:41:40 GMT
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Mike,  your conclusions are completely accurate.  6 months ago there
were solid plans for a CMOT demo of realproducts at INTEROP 89.  It
fell through because not enough vendors were able to commit to
making the deadline.  As far as i know they are still working on
making products, but they aren't ready yet.  I could be suprised by
one or two vendors showing up with actual products in the next
few weeks, but that would not be enough to bother putting
on an actual demo.  It takes a heck of a lot of coordination (read 
that as WORK) to put on a public demo of products from many sources.
We spend about 6 months each year working with the dozens of vendors
who are willing to prove to their potential customers that thier
products actually do work well together. The TCP/IP related demos
have been easier to pull together because the products are more
mature.  The OSI related demos have been tougher for the simple
reason that the products are less mature and therefore the vendors
are not as sure they can meet the deadlines.  This year we are having
two OSI related demos and the amouht of effort that has gone into
them is not small.  But, the results will be very impressive.
(With only two weeks to go, it is easy to predict what is already
known...  Paul Baran (the father of packet switching) said once
that "predicting is hard; predicting the future is even harder".)

Dan
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