[460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: filtering long prefixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Fri Sep 22 15:02:21 1995
From: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>
To: jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:56:10 -0700 (MST)
Cc: nanog@MERIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9509221354.AA19388@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> from "Noel Chiappa" at Sep 22, 95 09:54:13 am
Resent-From: nanog@MERIT.EDU
> The Internet is no longer an experiment.
>
> Well, yes and no. I take very well your point that it's a very large public
> utility (in the sense of something that people depend on), but at the same
> time we (i.e. humans) haven't ever built a system like this before, so it's
> inevitably "an experiment".
And remember...
...the earth is just an experiment run by mice, the most intelligent creature
on the earth.
Dave
ps. Sorry. Had to do it for the Douglas Adams fans...
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