<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Internet has quite of few interim thingies. Interim is the fast path to standards.<div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 22, 2018, at 1:09 PM, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net" class="">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 7/22/2018 11:57 AM, Guy Almes wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">[2] it also is a simple (and relatively harmless) example of how little <br class="">expedient decisions made *many* years ago, when combined with the need <br class="">for various forms of "compatibility", have consequences.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I probably stopped being surprised at its persistent 20 years ago. But <br class="">yes, it's really quite sad that it persists.<br class=""><br class="">And yes, it is further proof that the evil we do lives long after us. <br class="">Interim at scale is the same as permanent.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">d/<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Dave Crocker<br class="">Brandenburg InternetWorking<br class=""><a href="http://bbiw.net" class="">bbiw.net</a><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class="">internet-history@postel.org<br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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