[38496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And then there were two
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Jun 6 12:11:32 2001
From: Larry Sheldon <lsheldon@creighton.edu>
Message-Id: <200106061610.LAA23187@bluejay.creighton.edu>
To: rbuchals@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:10:47 CDT
Cc: sean@donelan.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F93vLQET7ffSsnuvPY20000bcea@hotmail.com>; from "Ron Buchalski" at Jun 06, 2001 3:45 pm
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >If you accept the premise that "peer == equal" does that mean
> >in the end there will be only two ISPs each with exactly 50%
> >of the world's Internet because no one else will be an equal?
>
> Why can't you have more than two 'equals'? Couldn't you have three 'equals'
> or four 'equals'? It would be just as difficult to maintain three or four
> _exact_ divisions as it would be to maintain two.
I am not a quantum physist (among many things I am not) but it would seem
that two is too many--the likelyhood that they would always be exactly equal
is vanishingly small (Heisingberg might insist it is impossible in principle)
and as soon as the become unequal one (both?) disappear.
[Descartes, on being asked if he wants a beer, says "I think not". . . . ]
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