pausable explanation for the Document Series
Charlie Perkins
charliep at IPRG.nokia.com
Fri Jun 6 08:14:48 CEST 2003
Hello Keith,
Keith Moore wrote:
>>>Perfection doesn't work. Shipping products and getting bug reports works.
>>>
>>>
>>Agree 100%.
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>Disagree 100%. It costs much more to fix bugs after shipping product than it
>does to do so beforehand. Forcing customers to accept the costs of poor
>protocol design is just irresponsible.
>
>
You seem to assume that the customers are going to sit around waiting.
Most will buy a system that works, and the perfect product will,
after a three year delay, be a footnote in history.
And that's where recent IETF protocol efforts may be heading.
I agree with Bob and Jari.
Regards,
Charlie P.
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