[2850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Metcalfe strikes again!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon May 6 21:22:10 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 1996 11:04:18 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 18:20:28 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Danger! Danger Will Robinson! The network is no longer a monopoly!
There's no single point of control, or of failure! No single person knows
everything that's going on! Central capacity planning isn't possible!
Um, excuse me, but why is this a bad thing? (Rhetorical, don't answer.)