clean
*>
*> Dave Crocker wrote:
*> >> IETF should not make it more difficult for the Internet to adapt to
*> >> changing conditions by standardizing protocols that only work in a
*> >> narrow set of conditions - even when those conditions are reflected
*> >> in some providers' current contracts or policies.
*> >
*> >
*> > Like ARP?
*>
*> I wasn't around when the ARP decision was made, so I don't know how
*> widely it was realized at the time that the approach was shortsighted.
*> we cannot, of course, have perfect foresight, so it will always be
*> possible to find examples of poor decisions made long ago. however the
*> lack of perfect foresight doesn't mean we should make our present
*> decisions blindly.
This is a strange discussion. Broadcast networks are an important
class of link layer technologies, and I would say that by any measure
ARP was a huge technical success. It may well have been responsible
for the great popularity of Ethernet and its followons. ARP also
established an important architectural technique. I don't understand
the suggestion that it was "shortsighted".
Bob Braden
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