jon postel

Tue Oct 17 00:03:24 UTC 2023

> I wonder if he knew it would have become what it is today.

one of my favorite postel quotes

    It's perfectly appropriate to be upset.  I thought of it in a
    slightly different way--like a space that we were exploring and, in
    the early days, we figured out this consistent path through the
    space: IP, TCP, and so on.  What's been happening over the last few
    years is that the IETF is filling the rest of the space with every
    alternative approach, not necessarily any better.  Every possible
    alternative is now being written down.  And it's not useful.

think of the folk making careers complicating dns, rpki, bgp, ...

randy