The mistake there being to insist on implementation of the IPv6
specification rather than what is necessary to enable the transition
to IPv6.
You can't build a building without scaffolding. In the middle ages the
design of the scaffold was often as great an engineering feat as the
building (c.f. Brunelleschi and the dome of Florence cathedral).
We have had a lot of people focused on the desired end state and not
enough consideration given to what it takes to get to that end state.
The idea of developing technology whose sole purpose is to enable a
transition is not always appreciated.
I am just writing a proposal in another field which argues for a
considerable sum to be invested for the sole purpose of reducing the
number of indispensable parties by one. I have no particular reason to
expect that party not to co-operate. In fact I have designed the
political drivers so that their participation is eventually
inevitable. But I need to convince other parties to move before this
has become generally apparent.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Melinda Shore
<melinda(_dot_)shore(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Fred Baker wrote:
I have a solution. Let's go through those OS's and rename gethostbyname to
GetHostByName. Put in huge comments everywhere that the character string is
found (man pages, which btw already have this, and in the code itself) "if
you use this, you're an idiot". Make folks use their heads momentarily.
That's actually how a number of problems were fixed in the BSD
libraries. gcc came along and it flagged some things - as errors -
that weren't really incorrect but were bad practice (writing into
constant strings, for example).
Can't imagine anything like that happening today. We've gotten a
vendor or two to implement v6 in their products by explaining that
we've got a non-negotiable requirement for it and that we'd be
unable to continue to license their stuff without it.
Melinda
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