Date: 17 Apr 2001 11:05:42 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FEP RFC Message-ID: <44wv8jpnw9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: crist.clark@globalstar.com's message of "17 Apr 2001 06:50:17 %2B0800" References: <9bfsv9$2vrv$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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crist.clark@globalstar.com ("Crist Clark") writes:
> I guess I missed this when it came out two weeks ago, and I did not
> see it pop up here. This one is very, very, very dry.
>
> http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3093.txt
>
> (In case it doesn't sink in right away, look at the date on it.)
I'm not sure that I agree with the "very, very, very dry" assessment,
at least in the large view. I'd actually call it very *pointed*
satire. To a non-trivial extent, tunneling protocols *over* HTTP has
been happening for years, in many cases for *no* reason other than
getting past firewalls. To say this is a bad idea doesn't even begin
to insult the concept properly, and I'm glad that Scott Bradner has
used humor so effectively in explaining the problem. [To give proper
credit to his co-author, I suspect that Mark Gaynor deserves a lot of
the credit for the rather clever dryness in the actual writing.]
Be well.
Lowell Gilbert
--
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it
ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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