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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: soBGP deployment
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 [email protected] 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
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