On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:57:01 -0800, David Lang said:

> The Computer Scientist will cringe at the 'hacks' that this introduces, but
> there is far more progress made when new capabilities can be added in a way
> that's transparent to other layers of the stack then when it requires major
> changes to how things work.

Otherwise known as the "Just throw an F5 in front of the whole mess" school
of network design... :)