RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
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RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
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Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#2 Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#3I am not sure whether they (IETF) have managed to retain their humor, but some great "truths", such as:
" With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead."
"It is always something."
"It is more complicated than you think."
Then:
"This RFC raises no security issues. However, security protocols are subject to the fundamental networking truths."
and
"The references have been deleted in order to protect the guilty and avoid enriching the lawyers."
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#4Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. I'm old enough to have lived through this multiple times now :-(
Not really relevant to networking, but I firmly believe hash tables (and hashing) had a concrete starting point within recorded history, which appears to be January 1953.
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#5Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. I'm old enough to have lived through this multiple times now :-(
What is there to be sad about retrying ideas? Maybe the reason they failed the first time is no longer true.
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#6> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
Not sure I understand how this applies to networking?
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#7> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. Not sure I understand how this applies to networking?
Most of them don’t really. They're fairly generic grievances that hard things are hard.
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#8> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. Not sure I understand how this applies to networking?
If you try, you'll very likely succeed. You probably shouldn't, though.
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#9Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. I'm old enough to have lived through this multiple times now :-(
What is there to be sad about retrying ideas? Maybe the reason they failed the first time is no longer true.
It's not the retrying that's bad, but the hype, that this time, it'll be better! It's almost never better.
Re: RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
#10Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. I'm old enough to have lived through this multiple times now :-(
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