[81029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: soBGP deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon May 23 16:18:13 2005
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:17:05 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BEB7926C.BD59%dgolding@burtongroup.com>; from Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com> on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:00:12PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
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