On 02/02/2013 10:33 AM, Lailah wrote:
El vie, 01-02-2013 a las 13:19 -0800, Joe Zeff escribió:
On 02/01/2013 01:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us  <mailto:j...@zeff.us>
> <mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote:
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>     As an example, does anybody reading this know what I mean by "an
>     identical cousin?"
>
>
> Not I, but then I'm only 63.
>
> poc

So am I.  Follow this link and try not to kick yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Duke_Show

I never see that in my life. People, I know is fun to make jokes with TV series and movies and the like, but think that this is an international list. The Whole World hasn't any due to know all of your stuff.

I learned this with RFC 2410, the Null Cypher for IPsec.

I was chair for IPsec at the time and I encouraged the authors to have fun with the RFC. We have a lot of fun tidbits in various RFCs beyond the April 1st RFCs. Read 2410, it CAN be fun, but a lot on non-US people will NOT get it. Plus now almost 20 years later, the issues with ITAR have been forgotten by even US developers.

But when I worked on IPsec certification in ICSAlabs (I helped set up the ICSAlabs IPsec certification process) we got a asian implementation that would not interoperate with any other product for the Null cypher. I won't go into details, but they took parts of the jokes in 2410 seriously and implemented them; wrongly. So every other product that got this right dropped the ISAKMP handshake with their product. There were some REALLY upset people in that company over this.

So I learned a real lesson on care in writing were people will come along later without the context.


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