On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:00:12PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote:
One of the Internetworking community's biggest problems is a fixation on the perfect solution. Its natural - we're engineers, after all. We want an elegant 100% solution to our ills. This often leads to something that never gets implemented in real life.
But it's worth noting here that there's a good reason for that: It's *miserable* to replace a fundamental protocol with insufficiently forward-thinking design decisions, too. Viz: IPv6. So the real question is: where's the happy medium? Cheers, -- jr 'first person who says "NBC" is fired' a -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me