OK. I finally understand the context of the word " Darwinism " in many IETF discussion and slides. Haha~
Davey > -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: Jim Reid [mailto:j...@rfc1035.com] > 发送时间: 2017年9月21日 15:22 > 收件人: "Davey Song(宋林健)" > 抄送: Paul Vixie; dnsop WG > 主题: a fragmented and uncooperative Internet > > > > On 21 Sep 2017, at 08:08, Davey Song(宋林健) <ljs...@biigroup.cn> wrote: > > > > In another word, we are facing the fragmented and uncooperative Internet. > What should we do ? > > Switch it off? Hand it over to ITU control? :-) > > The Internet was designed from the outset to work around breakage. Packet > fragmentation issues will always be with us unfortunately. The networks which > have these problems will fix them: Darwinism will take care of that > eventually. > Until then everyone else just has to work around them or ignore their > brokenness. 'coz that's how it works. > > We (for some definition of we) might come up with some tools to help identify > the problem or do some outreach and education to help mend these broken > networks. However I am sceptical those sort of things will be successful. > After > all we still have nets, servers and middleboxes that can't/won't handle EDNS > correctly or assume that DNS packets only ever go over UDP and are always < > 512 bytes. _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
