RE: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

["Scott Morris" <swm () emanon com>]

But he DID make it more feasible and useful.  And he DID throw thousands of
them away!

;)

Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Jay
R. Ashworth
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:07 PM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture


On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:08:39PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote:
> > On 07/03/05, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> > > How do we *know* there are no fundamentally new great concepts ...
> > > unless we *try a lot of stuff*.
> >
> >     Trying stuff is good -- until something's tried, none of us can
> >     really know what it'll do.  At what point do entirely off-network
> >     experiments become on-topic for nanog?  (I doubt anyone has an
> >     easy answer, I just wanted to throw the question out there.)
> >
> > > How many light bulbs did Edison throw away?
>
> edison didn't invent the light bulb...

So he didn't.  And me a regular Wikipedian...</ot>

Cheers,
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