Re: [idn] Re: Re: [idn] San Diego Meeting Notes

[John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>]

--On Thursday, 25 January, 2001 08:52 -0800 "Paul Hoffman / IMC"
<phoffman@imc.org> wrote:

> Could you clarify your reason for this? As long as the short
> term presentation-layer solution doesn't force any design
> change for the long-term solution, it seems that the two can be
> unrelated. Further, having a short-term solution in place gives
> people more time to figure out what the long term solution
> should be, and will also give some valuable data about the
> attributes of the names that need to be handled in the long
> term solution.

Paul, I would just remind you that, for Internet applications,
once something is deployed that does the relevant job at least
half-adequately (or even a bit less), and no matter how "short
term" it is intended to be, our success level in replacing it
with good (and "long term") solutions has been just about zero.
Indeed, the only exceptions I can think of involve incremental
improvements to the same protocol, not replacement by something
new.

     john