From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ISO, OSI, and DECnet (was Re: If not Linux, then what?)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:17:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190828181727.GA82704@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828172451.GX13570@mcvoy.com>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:24:51AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> The great Mike Padlipski said "do you want protocols that look nice or
> protocols that work nice?" in his fantastic book Elements of Networking
> Style [*].
>
This book taught me as much about navigating bureaucracy and the warning
signs of impending death-by-committee as it did about networking. I
keep a copy on my shelf at the office and annoy my staff with it
regularly. It's also a wonderful time capsule that provides a lot of
context about how we got where we are.
khm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-28 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 16:50 Paul Winalski
2019-08-28 17:24 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 17:45 ` Jon Forrest
2019-08-28 17:50 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 18:17 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2019-08-28 19:29 ` SPC
2019-08-29 0:29 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-29 14:54 ` Jason Stevens
2019-08-30 9:32 ` Wesley Parish
2019-08-30 13:59 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-31 23:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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