On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 04:14:48PM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Good point. Let's leave the current cooperative model of the internet
> unchanged and make plans for a new network. A network which would be
> interconnected with the internet and it's workings would be mostly
> indistinguishable from how the internet works for the ordinary end user,
> but where TCP/IP is replaced by a pair of protocals which implement
> Mike Nolan's idea. I am sure this new network will very quickly start
> to offer better services than the 'old' internet, and hence become a
> great commercial success for the many network infrastructure companies
> that will participate in it.
Be my guest. If you think you can make it fly, go for it. I think
you'll fail, but then again it's not my time or money on the line.
Heck, maybe I'm completely wrong and you'll get filthy rich from it.
But I think you really ought to look at the stampede *away* from this
model which is happening now before you commit yourself to it.
> > And that`s > without even getting into the technical details of
> > implementing this, a nightmare that I don't even want to think about.
>
> You don't have to.... some people will be interested in designing and
> implementing this; that is going to be a real challenge, yes, but you
> see, some people like challenges.
So do I. That's why I do whitewater kayak racing. Heck, that's why
I got into these weird things called 'Unix', 'Arpanet' and 'Usenet'
nearly twenty years ago. But I recognize that there's a difference
between "a challenge" and "a doomed attempt to resurrect already-dead ideas".
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org
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