Ted Lemon wrote on 04/12/2020 22:47:
Why do people buy stuff that’s not upgradeable? Probably because the manufacturer doesn’t give them a choice, and there’s no way to force the choice. The recent discussions about legally requiring firmware-upgradeable IoT devices (e.g. in Singapore) is definitely a step in the right direction. For medical devices and medical infrastructure, this should have been required, but as far as I know still is not.
people don't necessarily buy stuff that's not ungradeable. They buy stuff which has a support lifetime of finite duration.
Manufacturers have no incentive to continue to produce software updates for equipment which they stopped selling N years ago, yet the production lifetime of the product may well exceed the manufacturer's sales cycle for the device. There aren't credible reasons to think that the problem of equipment obsolescence is something that can be fixed by the IETF.
This shouldn't stop the IETF from formally deprecating standards which are known to be dysfunctional.
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