Re: quietly....

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On 1 feb 2011, at 21:03, Dave Israel wrote:

> People want to engineer their networks they way they want to.  Let them.  If their way is stupid, then they'll have 
> the stupidly engineered network they wanted.

The problem is that their stupidity impacts ME. If I want to talk to Microsoft from behind a < 1500 byte MTU link: too 
bad, not going to happen. They stupidly send packets with DF=1 but filter incoming packet too big messages.

So I'm all in favor of the IETF blocking stupidity whenever possible.