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And the middlebox brokenness is due to a lack of versioning. Virtually all middlebox brokenness is a result of a lack of versioning and poor upgrade paths - usu
by peterwwillis 8y ago
And the middlebox brokenness is due to a lack of versioning. Virtually all middlebox brokenness is a result of a lack of versioning and poor upgrade paths - usually from people demanding backwards compatibility above all else.
- tonyg 8y agoI view it as more of a consequence of "fail closed" thinking than a lack of versioning. As we've seen recently with TLS [1], even protocols with explicit versioning suffer from middlebox brittleness. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17298747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17298747