On 1 feb 2011, at 21:03, Dave Israel wrote: > People want to engineer their networks they way they want to. Let them. If > their way is stupid, then they'll have the stupidly engineered network they > wanted.
The problem is that their stupidity impacts ME. If I want to talk to Microsoft from behind a < 1500 byte MTU link: too bad, not going to happen. They stupidly send packets with DF=1 but filter incoming packet too big messages. So I'm all in favor of the IETF blocking stupidity whenever possible.