Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>>> If you have complicated requirements, you are wrong.
>>
>>
>> You are only ever wrong if you do not listen to your customers and as a
>> result fail to provide them with what they want.
>
>
> This is a vast oversimplification. Even if you give your customers what
> they want, you can still be wrong if your solution fails to behave
> properly in relation to the rest of the world (stealing resources,
> violating other people's rights, etc).
Once upon a time, telephone industry listened to its
customers (telephone companies) and provided them with what
ehy want.
As a result, telephone equipments becaome more and more
complicated with more and more complicated specifications.
Most of them are overtook by simpler equipments using IP.
>> The world is complex, sometimes solutions must also be complex. In those
>> cases the design choice is where you put the complexity.
> This, however, is right on target.
In theory, maybe.
However, I have never seen such a design choice necessary
for network protocols.
We don't need 3GPP for the mobile internetworking.
Masataka Ohta
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