"It's a good marketing tactic, but it's nothing new," said Padhye about the Infranet Initiative. Cisco, he said, will continue to help advance standards efforts by participating in working groups at the IETF and ITU, as it has historically. The existing standards bodies, Padhye said, "are the proper approach" to creating standards.
Fisch said the Infranet group is now asking member companies to contribute end-use case studies to help decide exactly how to ensure that the developed standards meet user needs. An early working reference architecture, he said, should be posted on the Infranet Web site within the next few weeks.
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