RE: from the horse's mouth

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Given the behavior of many IETF participants, QOS-based routing protocol 
design might very well be a kindergarten exercise.

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--> Dave Crocker
--> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:09 PM
--> To: Steven M. Bellovin
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--> Subject: Re: from the horse's mouth
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--> > Very much so.  In my opinion, a very high percentage of security 
--> > problems are due to UI failure as well.  (When I was an 
--> AD, I tried to 
--> > get an evaluation of one (IMHO ghastly) document from a 
--> CHI expert.   
--> > But he had no time, and said that the general area had never been 
--> > studied due to lack of time.)
--> 
--> 
--> Mix variable system performance, with cognitive psychology, 
--> with bell-curve 
--> statistical distribution of behaviors, and the challenges 
--> for good usability 
--> design make QOS-based routing protocol design (and 
--> operation) look like a 
--> kindergarten exercise.
--> 
--> It is one of the very good reasons that the IETF has done 
--> well to keep 
--> almost completely away from that realm.  As a community, we 
--> lack the 
--> expertise, and even the experts often lack the expertise.
--> 
--> The idea that random folk, like technical writers would 
--> have any particular 
--> clues about Interaction Design further highlights how far 
--> we are from 
--> wanting to deal with this topic.
--> 
--> d/
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--> Dave Crocker
--> Brandenburg InternetWorking
--> <http://bbiw.net>
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