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There is a beauty to simple bit packed protocols. That said, they seem to always end up not a great idea. Wholesale changing protocols is hard, so people tend
by axaxs 8y ago
There is a beauty to simple bit packed protocols. That said, they seem to always end up not a great idea. Wholesale changing protocols is hard, so people tend to try to tack features onto what exists. Look at the clusterfk that DNS has become, with various degrees of support, depending on the server.
- JustSomeNobody 8y ago> Wholesale changing protocols is hard... In my dozen plus years of working with them, I've not seen a large change like this. And TBH, there are way to structure them to make sure they handle changes. I mostly deal with hardware that has to be stable in the field for years, so maybe that's the difference.
- mhandley 8y agoOn the other hand, you could look at SIP for an example of what happens when you've an extensible ASCII-based protocol, and everyone and their dog decides to extend it. It's not pretty, that's for sure. I've come to regard it as my success disaster.