BGP Experiment

Wed Feb 6 12:36:45 UTC 2019

> From: Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 6:56 PM
> 
> > I suspect simple bugs are found by vendor, complex bugs are not
> > economic to find.
> 
> the running internet is complex and has a horrifying number of special
cases
> compounded by kiddies being clever.  no one, independent of resource
> requirements, could build a lab to the scale needed to test.
>
Yes what can break will break, yet here we are exchanging emails, I think
your statement assumes a vast search space.
No need to solve the whole thing, just to make my tiny part a bit better. 
No need to solve my tiny part for eternity, just for the near term.
Yes there will always be this long tail, but with what one would deem a
sufficiently low probability, in the intersection of the above search
spaces.

> and then there is ewd's famous quote about testing.
>
Yes human brains have their limits, hence we invented AI to help us solve
complexity.
Though in a sense it's just shifting the complexity to yet another layer
above...
 
adam