Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

jamal
2001-01-28T18:40:21Z

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> > This would have been easier. The firewall operators were not
> > provided with this option. This is hard-coded. I agree with the rest
> > of your message.
>
> Take "configure" with a bit of liberty. Because the firewall vendor
> chose to hard-code this into the firmware. "configuring" in this case
> means reconfiguring new software on the firewall. Blame the vendor.

Perhaps the most famous writting on protocol design was by Jon Postel.
Interestingly in RFC 793 (Section 2.10)
" be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
others."

That should be the mantra.
There is no librety when you hard-code.

cheers,
jamal