bernstein's protocol

John Ioannidis <ji@minetta.cs.columbia.edu> Mon, 07 September 1992 23:04 UTC

Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 19:06:05 -0400
From: John Ioannidis <ji@minetta.cs.columbia.edu>
Message-Id: <9209072306.AA18996@minetta.cs.columbia.edu>
To: ietf@NRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: bernstein's protocol
Sender: John Heldenprogrammer Ioannidis <ji@cs.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: ji@cs.columbia.edu
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science

Can someone please enlighten me as to why we are wasting time and
energy dealing with what protocol should run on port 113? Aside from
the fact that I believe the protocol is technically flawed, whether
you call it rfc931, authd, ident, or tap, the volume of the discussion
and time spent on it by far exceeds the volume of the specs and the
time that would be needed to write ten implementations of each.

Now, if Bernstein and his friends want to use their version instead of
what came out of the IETF ident WG, it's their problem. Not every
protocol running on the Internet has IETF/IESG/IAB approval, and no
Network Police is going to stop them. If he is so upset with the way
we operate, why is he seeking our approval?

With all the problems facing the Internet, one would think that our
time would be better spent on other things.

/ji

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