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To: tech101 who wrote (14164)	3/14/2006 3:46:28 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

The entirety of what you've enumerated in your preamble tells me that Cisco stands firmly behind service providers' policies and plans. I hardly would have presented my views as such if I were attempting to appear as an advocate of open networking. But when you're the biggest I suppose you've got to say something. This, despite the fact that, most of the widgetry and concocted service specifications with which carriers are seeking to erect tollbooths will eventually come off your own production line. Vendors love complexity stemming from libraries of specifications and patents. Tell me, which equipment vendor benefits from an Internet that allows a best-effort performance characteristic, even when such is all that is needed?