Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <lear(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
Christian Huitema wrote:
Your fears appear to be based more on emotions than facts. To the best
of my knowledge, the TCP/IP stack that ships in Windows conforms to
the IETF standards and interoperates with the stacks that ship on
other platforms -- it is certainly meant to. Several Microsoft
employees participate to the IETF, volunteering a sizable amount of
their time. Microsoft itself has a history of working with the IETF,
including providing financial support to the RFC editor through ISOC.
Christian, most of this note sounds like an apology of the form
"Microsoft is Okay because we give to charity", not because they do the
right thing. If Microsoft is doing development on enhancements to the
stack, this organization has good reason not to trust the results, based
on past experience (i.e., Kerberos).
OTOH, does anyone have any evidence Microsoft is attempting to "embrace and
extend" at or below the transport layer? This smells like a reporter's
paranoia.
Microsoft's application protocols (e.g. CIFS aka NetBIOS, Kerberos) are
certainly problematic, but I've heard no complaints about their IP stack in
several years.
S