[35861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Higgs)
Fri Mar 16 17:44:16 2001
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:15:50 -0800
To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
From: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.org
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At 04:04 PM 3/16/01 -0500, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>>Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com> asked,
>>On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:01:46AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> >
>>> Somehow I think that's EXACTLY what the founding fathers had in mind:
>>>
>>> "The Congress shall have power to ... fix the standard of weights and
>>> measures" U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Par. 5
>>
>>So which are the root servers, a unit of weight, or a unit of length?
>
>Why limit oneself? It is reasonable to assume that the successful
>deployment of a root server represents a milestone.
>
>1 mile = 5280 feet
>1 stone = 14 pounds
>
>Therefore, a milestone is equal to 73920 foot pounds. Convert to your
>preferred units.
And we were talking to New.net today about 800lb gorillas in the
marketplace. I wish I'd seen this sooner. :-)
Best Regards,
Simon Higgs
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