From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id b52926d2 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 08DFCA19E2; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:22:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03754A19D3; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:21:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AC79EA19D3; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:21:31 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 307 seconds by postgrey-1.35 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:21:31 AEST Received: from mail1.g22.pair.com (mail1.g22.pair.com [66.39.65.155]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 405479EC27 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:21:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail1.g22.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.g22.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867364841B5; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 05:16:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.175] (unknown [213.205.198.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail1.g22.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BE5D4497B7; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 05:16:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Bradshaw Message-Id: <24E1059F-F3ED-45EE-915E-6F32EFBAFA50@tfeb.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_96752282-A696-4710-9A96-785D9C0A5F83" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 10:16:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20180617175814.D8BAD18C0A7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> To: Noel Chiappa References: <20180617175814.D8BAD18C0A7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) Subject: Re: [TUHS] core X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --Apple-Mail=_96752282-A696-4710-9A96-785D9C0A5F83 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 17 Jun 2018, at 18:58, Noel Chiappa wrote: >=20 > One of two things was going to be true of the 'Internet' (that name = didn't > exist then, but it's a convenient tag): i) It was going to be a = failure (in > which case, it probably didn't matter what was done, or ii) it was = going to be > a success, in which case that 32-bit field was clearly going to be a = crippling > problem. There's a third possibility: if implementation of the specification is = too complicated it will fail, while if the implementation is simple = enough it may succeed, in which case the specification which allowed the = simple implementation will eventually become a problem. I don't know whether IP falls into that category, but I think a lot of = things do. --tim= --Apple-Mail=_96752282-A696-4710-9A96-785D9C0A5F83 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii On 17 Jun 2018, at 18:58, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

One of two things = was going to be true of the 'Internet' (that name didn't
exist then, but it's a convenient tag): i) It = was going to be a failure (in
which case, it = probably didn't matter what was done, or ii) it was going to = be
a success, in which case that 32-bit = field was clearly going to be a crippling
problem.

There's a third possibility: if implementation of the = specification is too complicated it will fail, while if the = implementation is simple enough it may succeed, in which case the = specification which allowed the simple implementation will eventually = become a problem.

I don't know whether IP falls into that category, but I think = a lot of things do.

--tim
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