Re: Arguements on key distribution vs. DNS

[Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>]

I only raise the issues, I'm not about to defend them...but I feel that a
clarification is necessary:

At 8:46 PM -0500 12/31/01, David Conrad wrote in response to me:
>> One cog in maintaining high reliability is simplicity.  Simplicity means
>> uncluttered software implementation and a strict bounds on the data stored
>> therein.
>
>While I'll buy the "uncluttered software implementation" (and I might add
>"too late!"), I'm not so convinced on the "data stored therein".  To the
>contrary, I figure the reliability of the system should be independent of
>the data stored therein.

If the data held within is limited, load is (probably) limited.  With a
lighter load, most anything is more robust than a heavy load.

...

To others reading this, as is probably evident from the breadth of the
original list, I can't fully support everything I posted - treat me like
the messenger (as in "don't shoot the") - up until the "MY OPINION" header.

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