Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

[Ralph Droms]

At 09:45 PM 4/24/00 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > I agree! Why create a finite anything when an infinite
> > possibility exists?
>
>Exactly.  If you designed an open-ended protocol, you're far less likely to
>ever have to rewrite it.

You just have to redeploy new implementations when you add new 
features.  "Open-ended" isn't helping us in extending DHCP.  That's not to 
say a practical, extensible, open-ended protocol can't be written...

- Ralph