Re: PS Characterization Clarified

[Jari Arkko <[e-mail]>]

> There's a point that I think should be made here, something like:
> 
> In practice, interoperable implementations are commonly based on
> Proposed Standard documents, so whatever design defects those
> documents have tend to become part of the interoperable network,
> perhaps in the form of work-arounds. Similarly, in today's
> Internet, any security defects tend to be exploited at an early
> stage. Fixing design and security issues in widely deployed code
> may be difficult or impossible in practice. Therefore, there is
> now very strong pressure to make the Proposed Standard as mature
> as possible, rather than being just good enough to meet the RFC
> 2026 requirements.

Yes, that is pretty accurate.

Jari