Re: soBGP deployment

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

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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