Originally Posted by
homers brother
You're still at it? A white paper, particularly and engineering white paper is, without question, the most BORING document one could EVER read, and may be incomprehensible when its author(s) are better engineers than they are writers. I might also point out that engineers aren't the only professionals who use "white papers". A few formatting differences, but the purpose is identical. An Engineer might not know that, but a Program Manager would.
Take some of your own advice - stick to guns.
Oh, I stick to guns more than you ever will know or understand.
Yes, to the uneducated a white paper is the most boring document. After reading you do not hold a MS, I can see your perspective. White papers and scientific conferences only drives all the technology we have at this point. Without OSA OFC or IEEE conferences, you would not be able to post your thoughst on this page. I guarantee you the bandwidth you are burning with all your literary thoughts and insight you put out is running over a WDM system that yours truely has patents on and helped install and design.
I realize you don't understand what I am explaining, so I will end it with "Merry Christmas".