Frankly, the original concern is that fixed packet sizes relative to increasing capabilities are not a good idea for future hardware and software performance (t

Frankly, the original concern is that fixed packet sizes relative to increasing capabilities are not a good idea for future hardware and software performance (think silly window syndrome or allocating a million 1-byte buffers). It's a technical problem that needs a technical solution (preferably through clearer language describing the issue or else we need to rethink things). I guess most people are simply not writing protocols that will be influenced by these decisions, so they fail to see the impact. Furthermore, no one said this was about "cudgels" and "bludgeons" or being "too strongly legalistic" or writing "laws". Those are your words, not mine.