[137529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Feb 15 23:58:18 2011
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:57:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dillon" <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
> > folks called them "backward" and "stuck in ipv4-think." But the fact
> > of the matter is, operators want a protocol to be as simple, efficient,
> > flexible, and stupid as possible. They don't want the protocol tied to how
> > things work today; it needs to be open to innovation and variety.
>
> This sounds a lot like bellhead speak.
As a long time fan of David Isen, I almost fell off my chair laughing at
that, Michael: Bell *wanted* things -- specifically the network -- smart
and complicated; Isen's POV, which got him... well, I don't know if
"laughed out of" AT&T is the right way to phrase it, but it's close enough,
was:
Stupid network; smart endpoints.
That seems entirely compatible with the proposed preference for IPv6
which you dismiss above as Bellhead.
Cheers,
-- jra
