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Re: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sun Sep 3 08:34:47 2000

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To: smd@clock.org, nanog@merit.edu, smcmahon@eiv.com
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
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At 18:23 01/09/00 -0700, smd@clock.org wrote:


>| Internet2 provides the same thing, only faster;
>
>I'm sorry, but parts of my network are ALREADY faster than Internet2's
>network by a factor of four.
>
>Other fully commercial networks are also well beyond the technology
>that most academics brag about.   The ONLY interesting large-scale
>academic networking project is currently being done by CANARIE, which
>ironically I used to call a pretty bird with a beautiful song and no
>ability to fly anywhere.

Your thinking only about faster - not smarter.  See my previous post.

-Hank


>If you want to appreciate interesting research networking ignore
>both I2 and v6, check out the MANET stuff in the IETF, and try
>to get the folks there to think much bigger scale.
>
>         Sean.



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