RE: "The IETF has difficulty solving complex problems" or alternatively Why IMS is a big fat ugly incomprehensiable protocol

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu>]

On Monday, September 12, 2005 10:13:52 -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
<pbaker at verisign.com> wrote:

> > Behalf Of Masataka Ohta
>
> > If you have complicated requirements, you are wrong.
>
> You are only ever wrong if you do not listen to your customers and as a
> result fail to provide them with what they want.

This is a vast oversimplification.  Even if you give your customers what 
they want, you can still be wrong if your solution fails to behave properly 
in relation to the rest of the world (stealing resources, violating other 
people's rights, etc).


> The world is complex, sometimes solutions must also be complex. In those
> cases the design choice is where you put the complexity.

This, however, is right on target.

-- Jeff

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