djerk.nl » Quotes http://www.djerk.nl/wordpress Anything related to Djerk Geurts may be found here (either locally or linked) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:45:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 200 bald men fighting over 6 combs http://www.djerk.nl/wordpress/2006/200-bald-men-fighting-over-6-combs http://www.djerk.nl/wordpress/2006/200-bald-men-fighting-over-6-combs#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:11:46 +0000 Djerk http://www.djerk.nl/wordpress/2006/200-bald-men-fighting-over-6-combs/ I’m glad Radia Perlman manages to scatter some funny anecdotes into her book “Interconnections”, this one is about the 6 TOS bits in the IP header (page 244):

Some people have affectionately referred to the -IETF Differentiated Services- working group as “200 bald men fighting over 6 combs”.

It’s funny to see the history as she’s describing the future in her book which shows how fast it’s dated. She wrote “Interconnections” in 2000 but it’s still a great ook explaining fundamental issues in a comprehensive manner, my print is a 7th edition from March 2005. Definetely a book to use as network protocol reference due to the many explanations why things are the way they are.

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Priority is an attempt to implement the principles of jealousy and envy in computer networks.
- Tony Lauck

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