Re: V4 complexity (was re: Proposed charter addition)

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From: RJ Atkinson (rja@extremenetworks.com)
Date: 12/12/02-03:54:35 PM Z 

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:54:35 -0500
Subject: Re: V4 complexity (was re: Proposed charter addition)
From: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
Message-Id: <4DD74097-0E1C-11D7-8C00-00039357A82A@extremenetworks.com>

On Thursday, Dec 12, 2002, at 16:25 America/Montreal, Talpey, Thomas 
wrote:
> One of the things about a Proposed standard is that it can
> contain speculative protocol features, which are in theory
> weeded out after seeing what actually gets implemented.
> How many of the items you mention below fall into this
> potential category?
>
> In other words, it's our collective call whether the protocol
> stays the way it was written. If it's too complex, the proof
> is in the interoperable implementations.

IKE is a counter-example to that assertion.  Multiple implementations
exist, but there is broad agreement that IKE is too complex.

Ran

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