Re: [lemonade] some questions in draft-ietf-lemonade-notifications-03

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no>]

Randall Gellens writes:
> At 11:10 AM +0100 8/9/06, Ben Last wrote:
> >  Sure, it's more complex from the OS's point of view, but that's 
> >  hidden from the programmer.
>
> I think it would be a mistake to make a protocol more complex and 
> expensive simply because programmers can implement it by taking 
> advantage of existing libraries and APIs.  Good programmers 
> understand, at least in general terms, what happens under the hood.

So do bad programmers when there's a bug. Consider fixing something 
which can be reproduced by doing x using server y and client z . A 
fairly common task for the maintainers of y and z, ie. for everyone. 
The very first step is necessarily protocol-level analysis, so all that 
"hidden" complexity is uncovered right away.

Arnt

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