Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

[Chris Kilbourn <kilbo-list () forest net>]

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.
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