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I think it's a law that any protocol or technology with 'simple' in the name invariably isn't.
by dminor 16y ago
I think it's a law that any protocol or technology with 'simple' in the name invariably isn't.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoSMTP is really quite simple. Of course, the array of hacks that is a modern mail infrastructure isn't - from SPF via Bayesian spam filtering to MIME - but the protocol itself is, really, quite simple.
- fanf2 16y agoHowever it has quite a lot of complication in the encrusted extensions - http://fanf.livejournal.com/64533.html http://fanf.livejournal.com/64533.html
- viraptor 16y agoSo true... even worse for stuff that is named "SIMPLE" in capital letters. SIMPLE -> "Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions". And no, it's not. It's based on ~100 of very long RFCs that make up SIP itself. Also it includes XML... and namespaces... and schemas... and some custom phone-specific values to make it less compatible with anything and more (and references HTTP and privileges model).
- cperciva 16y agoIt's also a law that any field with the name 'science' in it isn't a science. (Health science, social science, military science, earth science, computer science...)
- adw 16y agoWhich is why my the department I'm an alumnus of called it Earth Science_s_ - http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ - which is fine: it's a coalition of mineralogy, mineral physics, petrology, paeleontology, geophysics and rheology...
- ranit 16y agoyou missed ... christian science :-)
- lsd5you 16y agoAnd any country with democratic or people's in it's name, is not democratic or belonging to the people (Democratic Republic of North Korea, of Congo, PRC ... )
- kree10 16y agoI once worked at a company that had a platform named "Occam". While I was learning the system, I asked someone who had been there for a long time if they had chosen that name ironically. He didn't think it was funny.