@chiffchaff @oxy @davidgerard This is eerily evocative of the current monoculture in modern networking: #eBGP , #Clos network (spine-and-leaf), aggregated top-of-rack switches. #STP everywhere. Mentioning #G8032 #ERPS rings gets you strange looks; that's just for security camera #PoE switches isn't it? /s And the utter dependency of #SRv6 #TILFA robustness on #ISIS state. From this I infer that the #GenAI obsession is retarding actual progress in telecoms and computer networking.