OPEN ISSUE: Standards Track

[Keith Moore]

> As an example, I think it was a terrible mistake to delay
> Mobile IPv6 for so long pending the completion of the world's
> most sophisticated and super robost security solution (slight
> exaggeration, but ...).  I guess I don't have to describe the
> effect this can have in a world moving at what used to be
> called "Internet speed".

then again, we have plenty of experience that

- security holes *will* be exploited, and
- vendors will avoid implementation of security if allowed to do so,
  even if it subjects their customers to greatly increased risk

(ask yourself: why is it so easy for viruses to propagate by email?)