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Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-04-24 15:30:03
At 09:45 PM 4/24/00 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> I agree! Why create a finite anything when an infinite
> possibility exists?

Exactly.  If you designed an open-ended protocol, you're far less likely to
ever have to rewrite it.

You just have to redeploy new implementations when you add new features. "Open-ended" isn't helping us in extending DHCP. That's not to say a practical, extensible, open-ended protocol can't be written...

- Ralph