On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 11:35:46PM -0800, MegaZone wrote:
> I'm speaking completely for myself here not Lucent:
>
> See <URL:http://www.diamondmm.com/shotgun/>
>
> I was checking this out, and I was struck by something which to me stinks
> of a political decision.
>
> It looks like Shotgun is basically MP for modems with DBA - but the DBA
> is provided by Ascend's MP+. This was developed 'in cooperation with
> Ascend'.
>
> Why? Why base a new system on a protocol that has utterly failed to be
> embraced by the industry, when there is a *STANDARD* for this - RFC 2125
> BAP/BACP. If Diamond used BACP they'd have a wider support base on access
> servers and ISPs. BACP has been a standard since March 1997 and widely
> known in draft form since long before. Yet they picked a proprietary
> system like MP+. I just can't see how that is in the best interest of the
> users, or the ISPs. To me it stinks of X2 vs K56flex - want to offer this
> service to users, by 3Com/USR servers. Only now it'd be Ascend servers.
>
> Since it hasn't appeard yet, folks might want to write to Diamond and/or
> the press that has covered Shotgun, and encourage them to support open
> standards. Proprietary things on the backend don't bug me - the ISP can
> use them or not and most have one type of HW anyway for ease of management.
> But things like this only confuse the end user market and make for more
> headaches for ISPs, and in turn for other vendors. I can't see any
> justification for this decision.
>
> -MZ, speaking only for myself, and rather pissed at Diamond
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