Re: I have heard this a few times now

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <7D5D48D2CAA3D84C813F5B154F43B155C83487@nl0006exch001u.nl.lucent.com
>, "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" writes:

>
>Now... some of that probably has to do with the fact that
>so much of the Internet indeed runs on PS instead of DS 
>or STD.
>

I think that that is indeed the point.  Worse yet, if we get something 
noticeably wrong, often the fix will break compatibility, causing 
serious pushback.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)