Re: [perpass] perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 05 December 2013 09:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:42:42PM -0800,
 Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> wrote 
 a message of 51 lines which said:

>    It was incredibly successful. There was a competing stack design
>    in the OSI protocols which went nowhere. IMO the reason for
>    success was the simplicity.

Do note there is an entire (and excellent) RFC dedicated to the
reasons for success of a protocol, RFC 5218. Recommended reading before
continuing this discussion. 

Executive summary of RFC 5218: better to have no security at the
beginning (in order to be simple and easy) *but* to be able to add it
later (because with success come security problems).