Given the behavior of many IETF participants, QOS-based routing protocol
design might very well be a kindergarten exercise.
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--> Dave Crocker
--> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:09 PM
--> To: Steven M. Bellovin
--> Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
--> Subject: Re: from the horse's mouth
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-->
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--> > Very much so. In my opinion, a very high percentage of security
--> > problems are due to UI failure as well. (When I was an
--> AD, I tried to
--> > get an evaluation of one (IMHO ghastly) document from a
--> CHI expert.
--> > But he had no time, and said that the general area had never been
--> > studied due to lack of time.)
-->
-->
--> Mix variable system performance, with cognitive psychology,
--> with bell-curve
--> statistical distribution of behaviors, and the challenges
--> for good usability
--> design make QOS-based routing protocol design (and
--> operation) look like a
--> kindergarten exercise.
-->
--> It is one of the very good reasons that the IETF has done
--> well to keep
--> almost completely away from that realm. As a community, we
--> lack the
--> expertise, and even the experts often lack the expertise.
-->
--> The idea that random folk, like technical writers would
--> have any particular
--> clues about Interaction Design further highlights how far
--> we are from
--> wanting to deal with this topic.
-->
--> d/
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-->
--> Dave Crocker
--> Brandenburg InternetWorking
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