[e2e] end2end vs smtp

[Tarik Alj]

> We are starting to see the protocol designer equivalent of Gresham's
> law.  Bad designers drive out good ones.  

So do bad habits (if I may say so) ,  in a context where hard drives 
hold maybe 80 Gb and one commonly manipulates files that are a few megs, 
attaching a 15 Mb file (huge, sic) to a mail does not seem so bad for the 
average mail user. But this is far from being a simple mail transfer anymore, 
IMHO.  

 They are cheaper, more prolific,
> and their corrosive effects only become visible in the long term when it's
> too late.  One only has to look at the incredible damage to the
> evolvability of the architecture of the Internet caused by NAT boxes to
> understand why condoning unprincipled garbage designs is a bad strategy.
>
> - David
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> WWW Page: http://www.reed.com/dpr.html


-Tarik.