> Keith Moore wrote:
> and if one of your constraints is scalability and the other is
> deployability, you generally want to optimize for deployability
> first. that probably sounds like heresy. but it's easier to
> deploy first and make incremental modifications for scalability
> than it is to do the opposite.  well, okay, it might be _easier_
> to make the protocol scalable first and then deploy later, but
> that's only because you can keep refining an undeployed protocol
> forever without having to worry about impacting the installed base.
> HTTP is a mess, but it's successful because it was "optimized for
> deployability".

For once, I agree with Keith. Who would have believed this :-)

Michel.


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