Indeed. Maybe. When people turn up at the IETF and want to repeat a bad idea, that's the kind of thing they say. They say "the reasons why foo was bad don't ne

Indeed. Maybe. When people turn up at the IETF and want to repeat a bad idea, that's the kind of thing they say. They say "the reasons why foo was bad don't necessarily apply to bar" while waving their hands. They try try to make it sound as if the reasons actually don't apply, usually without having much idea about what the reasons were.