On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 16:55:59 PDT, Einar Stefferud <Stef@thor.nma.com> said: > My bottom line logic is that finding a way to resolve differences > through constructive resolution processes is what we need, vice > lobbing written grenades over walls, and building fortresses to close > out communications. > > But, I fear this is off topic because it is not technical enough;-)... No Stef, you're quite right here - we *do* need to remember the following: 1) Technical solutions for social problems almost never work. 2) We aren't designing technology for technology's sake, we are designing technology to be deployed and used. As such, we *will* end up with the occasional design wart - we've had protocols done in weird ways because some player had a patent on an algorithm. I was going to add "and if the US Govt said every third bit had to be painted green", and then I remembered that we produced RFC1508 on GSSAPI - an interesting tap dance around the "crypto in the hole" problem of the time. There exist players big enough that they can mandate "there will exist something like ICANN" and make it stick. We're also stuck with the technical considerations in RFC2826. Any proposed solution will have to deal with *both* those sets of issues. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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