[158500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: carping about CARP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sullivan)
Fri Nov 30 18:19:38 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:19:21 -0500
From: Andrew Sullivan <asullivan@dyn.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CABE=bRNKiDHRd2UVQSGu8NS3yJr00pCZGjr74KUi_Yj7KVqs5g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:05:14AM +1030, David Walker wrote:
> As far as not using the same protocol number, that's neither here nor there.
Horse pucky. On the Internet, the secure and reliable players
co-ordinate their protocol actions through the IANA, using the
published IANA rules for how you get a protocol identifier. This case
is a straightforward example of a bunch of people angry at things not
going their way, and treading all over a well-defined, open process
becuse they didn't like the actions of some of the participants.
I don't like those actions either, but if proponents cannot bother to
publish an Internet-Draft describing CARP, it's pretty hard to take
CARP seriously as anything like a "protocol". It's just rude
behaviour on someone else's well-defined port.
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Andrew Sullivan
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