you and I obviously inhabit different planets. please don't tell me any more about the one you live on.
Keith Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > Well you say that you can't do this and that without knowing what you are > doing. > > A counterexample is the fact that the basic architecture of the most widely > used security protocol we have in use today were set by people who did not > know what they were doing. They had the good sense to later hire people who > did but they had already made the critical choices at that point. > > Sure we beat them up for getting the security design wrong (he's talking > about an integrity attack, Marc), but they did make a design choice that none > of the rest of us who knew better would have done that has in hindsight > turned out to be completely right. > > A similar set of issues surrounded the Web. The critical invention was 404 > Not Found. Scruffy links were the wrong way to do it in 1992 but today we > understand that only scruffy can work. > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
