Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Patrik Fältström wrote:
>
> > The IESG is worried about "middlebox features" which comes up all
> > over the place. Just all over. The way people think about early TCP
> > termination, "front-ending SSL connections so the SSL is not all the
> > way to the server", ...etc might not all the time work well in todays
> > design of the Internet.
>
> I think most IP people dislike the TCP hacks quite often done today in
> load balancers and "transparent" proxies & accelerators. This is bound
> to give problems sooner or later (quite often sooner in my experience).
To be more specific, IP people avoid violating existing standards (TCP,
IP), both because of potential side effects, as well as it 'robs Peter
to pay Paul'. Either standards matter (in which case don't violate the
old one), or they don't (in which case why bother creating the new one).
It is the hack which is liable to give problems sooner or later; not the
IP people's dislike of them.
:-)
Joe
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