[Infrastructures] using IA methodologies to build network element configuration

[Will Lowe]

> I simply don't know if I agree. I don't want an operating system so
> much as I want basic control over hardware and firmware, and the
> logic to handle what I need the box to do.

Network vendors seem to have enough trouble debugging their code as it
is; I'd hate to see what happened if the BFR vendors (Foundry, Cisco,
Juniper, etc) suddenly had to regress not only their own features, but
bash, vsftpd, apache, and other fairly large, complex open source
software.

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        Will