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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:26:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Hristo Grigorov <Hristo.Grigorov@Kolumbus.FI>
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Subject: Re: ECN now on "Standards Track" RFC 3168
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Hristo Grigorov wrote:

> > Firewall/Loadbalancing vendors and websites can no longer play the "we
> > don't support experimental protocols" card.
> Screw the RFC!
> If you try to follow them, you will find out that no1 follows them... :(

Which is exactly the attitude that the RFCs set out to counteract.
Because some vendors decide to get `creative' with their interpretation
of standards is no reason not to have them.

regards,

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.suse.de/~davej
| SuSE Labs

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