Hail NANOGers! A global hospitality organization with 100+ locations recently asked us how to weigh the importance of standardizing infrastructure across all their locations versus allowing each international location to select on their own kit. My first instinct was to jump on my favorite search engine and look for an authoritative document covering the topic. To my surprise I have not been able to find such a thing. So I've begun to write one myself, and as I start I've realized that: a) This is likely to be a document that will be helpful to the wider community, and b) This is likely a topic that many of you have a great deal of knowledge and personal experience. If you have pointers to an existing doc, please share. If you have a case study, lesson learned, data point, or even just a strong opinion; I'd love to hear it! My intention is to put this together BCOP style, but with more of a focus on why rather than how this time around. Feel free to reply on or off list. Thanks in advance for your input! Cheers, ~Chris PS - I won't use any direct quotes without advance permission and I'll provide attribution to all that contribute meaningfully. -- @ChrisGrundemann http://chrisgrundemann.com