linux-kernel - Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

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Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:23:42 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...l.org
Cc:	a1426z@...ab.com, arjan@...radead.org, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	jesper.juhl@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A proposal; making 2.6.20 a bugfix only version.

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:09:17 -0800

> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:15:49 +0300
> Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com> wrote:
> > I meant structural OSI compliance.
> 
> Read the book "Network Algorithmics"; it has a clear discussion
> of why building your stack like the protocol specification
> is a bad idea.

Even Van Jacobson can be quoted as saying (to the effect) that
layering is how you design protocols, _NOT_ how you implement
them.
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