[17119] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a little thought on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 21 22:26:11 1998
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
cc: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 20:26:33 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:18:20 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Dean Anderson writes:
> At 7:18 AM -0400 5/20/98, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >The fundamental problem is there are no magic pixie dust in this business.
> >Sure, some people like to put out press releases saying how they've solved
> >all the worlds problems using the Magic Frambulator. But what they've usual
ly
> >done is ignored half the problem.
>
> Ohmygod! We're out of magic pixie dust!?! The Internet will collapse in 30
> minutes!!! How could the Internic let this happen?
>
> I'd like to propose an RFC for conserving pixie dust. Maybe a non-profit
> arm of the Internic to allocate magic pixie dust on a fair and equal
> basis...
The pixie dust is held exclusively by the IETF's Security Area
Directorate, and Jeff Schiller distributes it when circumstances
require it.
.pm
