Re: [dispatch] Identity Adhoc - Nov 9th: Notes available

"Dan Wing" <dwing@cisco.com> Tue, 17 November 2009 21:20 UTC

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From: Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [dispatch] Identity Adhoc - Nov 9th: Notes available
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Willis [mailto:dean.willis@softarmor.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:09 PM
> To: Dan Wing
> Cc: 'Jon Peterson'; 'Jiri Kuthan'; dispatch@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [dispatch] Identity Adhoc - Nov 9th: Notes available
> 
> Dan Wing wrote:
> >Jon said:
> >>I do not find the requirement for NAT traversal unacceptable, 
> >>but I do 
> >>consider the requirement for media steering highly dubious at best.
> > 
> > 
> > "Highly dubious" = nobody really does it?
> 
> People do highly dubious stuff all the time; they have 
> unprotected sex, 
> they jump out of perfectly good airplanes, they vote for 
> Obama, they try 
> for a single-handed Atlantic crossing in a 6 meter sailboat with no 
> preparation, they try to implement RAI specifications from the RFC 
> without parallel testing against existing systems, and so on.
> 
> The question is: Should we take the human urge to engage in highly 
> dubious practies like traffic steering into account when we write an 
> identity spec? If so, at what level of  dubiousness (or 
> dubyaness, for the left-leaning) do we draw the line?

Said another way:  pragmatic versus academic.

-d