On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 21:50, Hallam-Baker, Phillip
<pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com>wrote:
Yes, we all know that it is much easier to get O/S vendors to fix their
billion plus lines of code and the apps vendors to fix their million plus
lines of code than it is to deploy a $50 NAT box.
What you are proposing here is that we bell the cat instead.
Not necessarily, but it would be nice if we could both have systems that are
not coded badly and networks that are not broken by design.
And I really doubt that the lines of code, in say Vista, that relate to IP
stack and addressed makes up even 0.01% of their code.
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