On 8/5/2005 5:19 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
While the availability and stability of the IETF infrastructure is
important, an engineering organization which declines to "eat its own
dog food" sends a message about its suitability for widespread
deployment.
The phrase is an anecdotal reference, where the executives of a dog food
company said they knew the product tasted good because they tried it
themselves. It's a good analogy.
Getting hung up on the "dog food" part of the analogy misses the whole
point of the anecdote.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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