Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-bfd-on-lans

"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Wed, 04 December 2013 22:21 UTC

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Thanks Sam, and sorry to disappoint you.

Your quote is going in my Twitter file...

> If the universe valued good abstraction layers, entire civilizations
> would crumble in disgust every time you send one of these packets.
> However, it is a useful hack for performance and code re-use.

Cheers,
Adrian