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Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kristoff)
Fri Jul 1 10:58:56 2005

Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:58:29 -0500
From: John Kristoff <jtk@northwestern.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050701.055426.5286.303649@webmail26.lax.untd.com>
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:53:53 GMT
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:

> With all respect to Dave, and not to sound too skeptical,
> but we're pretty far along in our current architecture to
> "fundamentally" change, don't you think (emphasis on
> fundamentally)?

=46rom the article it seems clear that the focus is on 'new', not
'changed'.  No need (and probably little likelihood now) to change
this architecture if you don't want to, but a new architecture may
come along that make this one seem quite outmoded.

I'm skeptical about something truly new coming from this specific
project, but I hope it comes from somewhere.  With any luck someday
we'll be referred to as those 'old interphants'.  :-)

John

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