On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:42:42PM -0800, Bruce Perens <[email protected]> wrote a message of 51 lines which said:
> It was incredibly successful. There was a competing stack design > in the OSI protocols which went nowhere. IMO the reason for > success was the simplicity. Do note there is an entire (and excellent) RFC dedicated to the reasons for success of a protocol, RFC 5218. Recommended reading before continuing this discussion. Executive summary of RFC 5218: better to have no security at the beginning (in order to be simple and easy) *but* to be able to add it later (because with success come security problems). _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
