Re: tunneling [Was: Agenda for Vienna]

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On woensdag, mei 21, 2003, at 04:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Tony Li wrote:

> |    I don't think we can make informed decisions about the
> |    architectural
> |    approach unless we know how well each approach is going to
> |    work out. That's why I keep going into detail.
> This is a common trap.
So then there must be a reason why it's hard to avoid it.  :-)

> Some detail causes someone else to go into
> further detail and then we end up arguing about the details.  Bzzt.
> We need to understand at the very top level how things are going
> to work.  Then we flesh out details.  If things aren't going to
> work at the top level, then the details are a waste of time.
Didn't we kinda sorta agree that loc/id is our collective favorite 
architecture and that the rest is either flawed, should be worked on 
elsewhere or no interest in working on it as a group?

Even though we get a bit sidetracked from time to time, I think we're 
having a very useful discussion on the identifier semantics and mapping 
mechanisms right now.