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Pretty much everything about X.500 is breathtakingly terrifying. How did people even manage to come up with it?
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Pretty much everything about X.500 is breathtakingly terrifying. How did people even manage to come up with it?
- teddyh 5y agoIIUC, all the old ISO/ITU telecommunication standards were like that. This is why people fled in droves to instead use and implement TCP/IP from the RFCs.
- Joker_vD 5y agoOh yeah, Gutmann actually explains this history in one of his writings, and then the certificates kinda start making sense. Also, remember the OSI model? It was not supposed to be just a model — and it's a failure of the model anyway, real network protocols just keep piling up application layers on top of each other, the upper ones using the lower ones as their transport layers, — no, there were supposed to be actual separate protocols for each level, and actually there are! Of course, nobody sane ever uses them.
- commandlinefan 5y ago> How did people even manage to come up with it? Reminds me of the old saying: a zebra is a horse designed by committee.
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