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Architectural Ossification
The net is already hard to change in the core.
IP Options virtually useless for extension.
Slow-path processed in fast hardware routers.
NATs make it hard to deploy many new applications.
Firewalls make it make to deploy anything new.
But the alternative seems to be worse.

Now consider the effect of DoS mitigation solutions....
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