Re: introduction

[Jeffrey C Honig]

 > Agree that the new protocol SHOULD include compatibility with the old
 > protocol for both pitch and catch (or source and sink, client and server,
 > heckyll and jeckyll, etc.).

I think that this is one of the big problems with existing protocol.
It is not very flexible and any changes have the potential to break
other vendor's implementations.  We considered some enhancements at
BSDI, but had to abandon them in favor of backwards compatibility.

Thanks.

Jeff