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Re: IoT - The end of the internet


From: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 21:20:57 -0700



On Aug 9, 2022, at 8:06 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:

Robert Metcalfe, InfoWorld columnist and the inventor of Ethernet, also in 1995:
 “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”

In 1998 I invited Mr Metcalfe to address the IETF on the collapse of the Internet, which he renewed his prediction of. 
He declined.

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