On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:00:56 EDT, Keith Moore said:
and a technology that only works correctly on the server end seems
like a matter for the server's network rather than the public
Internet - and therefore not something which should be standardized by IETF.
Much the same logic can be applied to NAT (the way it's usually implemented).
Both have issues, both have proponents, and both will be done even more brokenly
if there's no standard for them.
Personally, I'd rather have the IETF issue verbiage saying "Do it this way",
than have 50 million content providers all implement it in subtly different
and broken ways.
"You are trapped in a twisty little maze of proxies, all different..." ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech