[17059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a little thought on exchanging Jim Fleming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed May 20 12:06:28 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:48:36 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BD83BF.AE007660@webster.unir.net>; from Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 07:19:50AM -0500
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 07:19:50AM -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
> For example, some people design routers to "attract packets"
> like magnets. They design protocols for routers to tell other
> routers what packets to send them. Why on earth do people
> and companies want packets ? Processing packets costs
> time and money. Imagine a world where routers tell other
> routers what NOT to send them.
>
> Routers should be designed to "repel packets" and to quickly
> get rid of the ones they have. They should also be designed
> to send them as quickly as possible to the place they belong
> and not to some black-hole called a NAP so that people can
> puff out their chests about their NAP being bigger than the
> next NAP.
Has anyone nominated Jim for the Internet Kooks list, this year?
I should think he ought to be an emeritus member.
Cheers,
-- jra
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