Masataka Ohta wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
And the goal should be to prevent IETF perform meaningless
engineering such as development of stupid protocols, including but
not limited to, IPv6 and LISP.
Now THIS seems like a living example of something that is both
unprofessional AND uncivil.
Thank you very much for clarifying that requiring to be "professional"
or "civil" means prohibiting fair criticism against poor engineering
results.
I can't speak to LISP (other than the language, which is just plain
brilliant). But a lot of good engineering went into IPv6 (speaking as
an outside observer) - calling it "meaningless" and "stupid" is both
uncivil and unprofessional - certainly in print. (In a design review,
in context, "that's just plain moronic, on the face of it" - might be
considered both civil, and professional).
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
