[30931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Sep 1 17:32:45 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> The Internet as we know it took 30 years to come to everybody, and it was
> providing something that essentially wasn't provided before.
>
> Internet2 provides the same thing, only faster; so why do we believe it will
> replace the existing solution *EVER*, much less in a shorter time frame than
> 30 years?
>
> The Internet is going to be with us for a very long time. Emphasis should be
> on fixing it, not replacing it.
Is it just me or is the Internet2 not a very big deal? Its based on OC-48c
and OC-192c technology as far as I know, so why would its adoption change
_anything_ except the some switch or router gear that guarantees QoS?
I admit my information may be woefully out of date; I saw an article in
InternetWeek about transfering a file at 40Mbit/s. I wouldn't see the big
deal at 400Mbit/s.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
