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Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Wed, 14 September 2016 14:11 UTC

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From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:28:28 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Gert Doering wrote:
>
>> We're not talking about "too early" here.  We're talking about "5 years
>> too late" vs. "at some future point of perfection, when nobody alive today
>> cares anymore".
>
>
> I have to agree with Gert here. The time to engineer a great, nice
> future-proof mechanism was 10 years ago, so it would have running code
> widely deployed 5 years ago.
>
> Since we don't have that, then now is the time to standardize a "does the
> same as we have today for 16bitAS but for 32bitAS" which involves as small
> code, operational and standardization changes as possible, so code can get
> into operator routers ASAP.
>
> So get it out the door now. Not in 6-12 months time. Now. ASAP.

+1.

Seeing as pithy French quotes appear to be the hotness this week:
"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
- Voltaire

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