On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:44:37 -0400 "Bound, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I came here and asked a simple question. Look what happened. In > industry this would be a no brainer and most would take your view is my > opinion. Don't use these for applications. > But it has turned into another absurd avoidance of basic principles > because folks have their heals dug in on for some reason. As far as I can tell, the "reason" is a basic failure to do engineering, or more specifically analysis. A small number of emperical tests with limited scope are taken as evidence that some practice or another will not cause problems for an extremely diverse Internet with 10**8 - 10**9 distinct users and 10**5 - 10**6 different apps. That's the networking equivalent of driving a single car over the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge and declaring it sound. (I cite the Tacoma Narrows Bridge because it was another case of ignoring the analysis that was done (of wind effects) - blind faith in the designer's reputation was deemed to make such analysis irrelevant.) Keith p.s. If you're not familiar with that bridge, see http://www.camerashoptacoma.com/mpegs/TacomaNarrowsBridge.mpg -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
