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Re: INTERNIC Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Browne)
Thu May 28 01:20:32 1998

In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980527224232.2395B-100000@iago.nac.net>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 20:28:51 -0700
To: nanog@merit.org
From: Jim Browne <nanog@pup.com>

At 22:46 -0400 5/27/98, Al Reuben wrote:
>2) Why can't the Internet put interesting things in the header so that we
>could unifiy the way we look at them to automatically process them? Like:

Good question.  I posed that same question in person at NANOG 9 to the
people responsible for the system at the InterNIC.  Their response was that
it was a good idea.  Suprisingly, they haven't acted on the suggestion.  I
guess I should just send them more money and pray.


Jim Browne                                                jbrowne@jbrowne.com
         "Lesson: PC's have a `keyboard lock' switch, and it works."
   - Kevin Brick, after RMA'ing a motherboard with a "bad keyboard connector"



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