Bob Braden wrote:
If it's not broken, why break it?
*> Standards have been invented for creating markets.
That's strange, all these years I thought standards were for interoperability.
Hear, Hear!
Folks, I took a look at the first posting, and was surprised at those
where I'm personally knowledgable.
RFC1378 The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)
It was widely implemented. I still use this. My $1000 HP LaserJet 4ML
works fine, it hasn't run out its original cartridge, but I need
appletalk for it.
RFC1552 The PPP Internetworking Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP)
RFC1553 Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX)
Again, widely implemented. Sure, IPX wasn't a very good protocol, but I'm aware of rather a large number of sites that still run it. Sure, Novell refused to divulge the contents of some of the fields, so we just had to carry undifferentiated bytes around, but it worked....
RFC1598 PPP in X.25 RFC1618 PPP over ISDN
At one time, these were incredibly important in the 3rd world, and
some parts of Europe and Japan.
Is X.25 completely non-existant today? Heck, folks were running X.25 over ISDN D-channels, and those still exist on every PRI circuit....
Admittedly, some of this may be nostalgia, as X.25 was the second protocol I ever implemented, circa 1978 before so much cruft was saddled upon it through the "standardization" process.
It seems to me that besides the ossification of the IETF that keeps it from getting much of anything worthwhile done, some folks have lost sight of the "inter" part of networking.
RFC1828 IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 RFC1829 The ESP DES-CBC Transform
Now *THESE* were historic when written! Due to US government pressure,
it took years (and big plenary protests) for them to be published! Especially without the 40-bit export restrictions!
At the time, I advocated Triple-DES to be the Proposed Standard, since we already knew 56-bit DES was broken. I requested Historic status for these many years ago....
-- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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