> Keith Moore wrote: > and if one of your constraints is scalability and the other is > deployability, you generally want to optimize for deployability > first. that probably sounds like heresy. but it's easier to > deploy first and make incremental modifications for scalability > than it is to do the opposite. well, okay, it might be _easier_ > to make the protocol scalable first and then deploy later, but > that's only because you can keep refining an undeployed protocol > forever without having to worry about impacting the installed base. > HTTP is a mess, but it's successful because it was "optimized for > deployability". For once, I agree with Keith. Who would have believed this :-) Michel. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf