[543] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: Inter-realm Zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue May 26 16:44:20 1992
To: zephyr-comments@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [542] in Zephyr_Comments
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 May 92 16:43:33 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
(zephyr-comments only goes to the discuss meeting, btw)
>>> From: Jay Laefer <jl57+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>> I'm currently working on implementing inter-realm Zephyr. This will
>> involve some minor additions to the current protocol. Would it be
>> appropriate for me to increment the protocol version to 0.3?
Um. IMHO, we better do something about this guy. I see several
solutions.
1) Let him go ahead, and hope the best implementation wins. I think
this is a horrible idea, since historically, the first implementation
wins. I don't want zephyr's implementation to go the way of afs and
ez (sorry, Bill). I have no confidence in CMU's ability to write
code. I know others agree with me.
2) Try to nicely get him to realize that he lacks the experience to do
any sort of implementation right. I'm not convinced that anyone who
hasn't watched zephyr evolve and lose knows enough about the complex
interrelationships involved to do something like this "right".
3) Wield the Holy Scepter of Copyright Infringement, and tell him he
*can't* call it Zephyr, and therefore might as well not bother.
Of course, it may be that MIT doesn't care. I certainly hope this is
not the case.
Marc
P.S. Yeah, I suppose I'm being a little arrogant and protective here.
But I like zephyr. It needs work, but I'm skeptical of someone
outside the zephyr team being able to dtrt.
