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Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
From: Chris Kilbourn <kilbo-list () forest net>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:17:10 -0700
At 9:58 AM -0500 7/1/05, John Kristoff wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:53:53 GMT "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:With all respect to Dave, and not to sound too skeptical, but we're pretty far along in our current architecture to "fundamentally" change, don't you think (emphasis on fundamentally)?From the article it seems clear that the focus is on 'new', not'changed'. No need (and probably little likelihood now) to change this architecture if you don't want to, but a new architecture may come along that make this one seem quite outmoded.
It's also worth remembering that packet-switched networks took decades to eclipse circuit-based networks and that the early Internet was, for all intents and purposes, useless for the vast bulk of humanity in addition to being a tax-funded research project.
It takes a lot of seeds to grow a field of wheat. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Kilbourn kilbo-list () forest net --------------------------------------------------------------------
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