[OpenAFS-devel] Re: IPv6 strawman plan: Re: Moving Forwards

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:52:27 -0400, Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@your-file-system.com> said:

> On 9/10/2012 11:36 AM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>> Aside from what Simon said, anyone can just request RPC code points
>> without explanation of what they are. If Troy wants to request 50
>> 'private' points from each relevant package and make his own protocol, I
>> have a hard time seeing the trouble with that.

> Requesting RPC code points would be following the standardization and
> registration process.

No, that's the wrong way around.

A working implementation comes first, then you actually have
sufficient information to consider standardizing it.  There is
absolutely no value in standardizing something that has never been
implemented.

-GAWollman