Re: musings

William Chops Westfield <billw@cisco.com> Thu, 16 May 1996 23:01 UTC

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From: William Chops Westfield <billw@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: musings
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Of course, RFC1122/23 weren't an unqualified success either.  It's shown up
in RFPs, but you can still find plenty of implementations that are broken in
serious ways (according to RFC1122/23) that the vendors seem to have little
interest in correcting.

BillW