Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

[Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>]

Sandy Harris wrote:

>>Dennis Beard wrote:
>>
>>Hello Mr. Simpson,
>>
>>I am not quite sure what was the point of your "10 year" memo,
>>
> 
> Perhaps just to highlight that something in the process is broken?
> 10 years and we haven't got this stuff fully deployed yet.
> 
> Hell, you could argue about whether we've even got it completely
> designed and properly specified. (I'd say "Yes, but...".)
> 
> Compare this to the web, which is about 12 years old. If it had
> developed equally slowly, we'd stiil be using Gopher and quite
> a few well-known companies, products, job titles, etc. would not
> exist.


Don't forget about SGML. And Hypercard. And others. The web didn't occur 
overnight; it was a multi-decade evolution.

While I hope this isn't the case with IPsec, it's unfair to hold it to a 
nonexistent 'overnight' success metric.

Joe