I mentioned this quote in a tweet earlier this week; it's from a hysterical, irreverent rant - well, series of rants - by a protocol engineer in the 80s by the name of Michael Padlipsky, in a book titled 'Elements Of Networking Style'. (Thread 1/10) 
Padlipsky spent almost a decade of his life politely - and sometime less politely - telling anyone who would listen that ISO was garbage and TCP was here to stay.
In today's jargon: he was a TCP maximalist. 2/10
In today's jargon: he was a TCP maximalist. 2/10
He loved working with protocols and designing them; he hated conference hopping and endless designing of specs in committee. 3/10
He put this series of slides together as part of his presentations, trying to convince engineers to abandon the dream of OSI for the reality of TCP. 4/10
See, a ton of engineers in the late 70s and early 80s thought they could design something better than TCP. Naturally, they all flocked to OSI to try to implement their "something better."
(Everybody wants to be the next Satoshi, amirite?) 5/10
(Everybody wants to be the next Satoshi, amirite?) 5/10
I wonder what we would have thought about layer-2 protocols vs 'parachains' or Telegram's "n-of-92 hypersharding"....
...wait never mind he covered it. 6/10
...wait never mind he covered it. 6/10
He hated false comparisons between working protocols and marketing hype, and called them out whenever he saw them. 7/10
He understood that protocol devs aren't like traditional app developers - more isn't better. 8/10
I'm re-reading his book 'The Elements Of Networking Style', amazon.com/Networking-Ani… in an attempt to survive Blockchain Week here in NYC. It's helping. 9/10
PS: I don't choose ridiculously expensive books on Amazon; just realized that the engagement from my tweets can push the price of rare books up. If you decide you want to buy this one, note the hardcover that I linked to is now $400 USD (!) and the paperback is only $20. 10/10
