Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:46:56 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document |
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On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 04:04:58PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Anyway, much more disturbing is the idea of "extending" the "too simple" > IETF protocols, and hinting at adding enough complexity and options that > "others" will have a hard time selecting what to implement first, and how. > If you look at the backwaters of the 'net (like around here), things don't > work so great because sysadmins of even larger corporations and mayor ISPs > around here don't get the basics straight... now think about what will > happen if the "wounderfully extended" protocols become the norm. the IETF > has an interesting enough life as is getting the "too simple" protocols to > work sanely, hardware/software providers and sysadmins have a hard time > understanding, implementing and exploiting the "too simple" stuff today. > I.e., imagine MS-mess but on Internet scale, not just desktop-scale. If you > can. > > Scary. Real scary. Halloween stuff, definitely.
Makes me think of writing application proxies that trash any attempt to use M$ proprietary extensions.
Ralf
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