5 Feb
2021
5 Feb
'21
4:41 a.m.
On Feb 4, 2021, at 2:28 PM, George Michaelson <ggm(a)algebras.org> wrote:
Basically Larry, I think you are kindof wrong. These alumni of yours
did what all kids should do: they ran ahead. Did they scrape their
knees doing it? Sure. But if they don't try things their teachers say
are bad, how do they advance the art? If we'd listened to Eddy
Dijkstra, we'd never have got BGP: He said it couldn't scale, even
though it was based on his own work.
I think Larry is talking about ZFS *implementation* design choices;
which we, as ZFS users, mostly don't care about!
It was OSPF, not BGP, that used Dijkstra's SPF algorithm. The last
I knew BGP was all about "policy" -- why random bad actors can sling
half of the internet traffic through China or Vanuatu or whatever.