Wietse Venema wrote:
Hector Santos:
This is exactly the same problem that the industry evolved to over the
past two decades and what has brought us together here. The problem is
dealing with the legacy market of old SMTP systems and how the bad guys
use this to gain entry into systems. If that wasn't the problem then we
would have FULL control of all anonymous transactions.
Indeed. The evolutionary approach does not work. It has saddled us
up with a series of legacy systems that we need to cope with.
Instead, we need to get things right the first time. Therefore we
need to discourage deployment until we have achieved the complete
and perfect solution. After that point has been reached, the world
will be perfect forever and nothing will ever need to be changed.
Of course, that is silly so I don't know why you brought it up.
Nonetheless, there is nothing wrong with having a "Getting right the
first time" approach to design. Its a QA thing, not an ABSOLUTE and if
you do some research, you will find this old mantra is once again
growing in engineering, management and QA circles. The goal? To
minimize duplicity of rework, potential problems for you and customers
and hence cost.
We are not talking about DAY 1 of the Internet here. But 35+ years, and
we have enough knowledge and insight to know today that if you can
recognize the creation of a potential problem, then it would be
neglectful if a) you didn't bring it up and b) if you continue to pursue
such a course to allow it to happen.
--
HLS
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