[81860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Kilbourn)
Fri Jul 1 11:19:00 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050701145829.8FC00136C82@aharp.ittns.northwestern.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:17:10 -0700
To: John Kristoff <jtk@northwestern.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Chris Kilbourn <kilbo-list@forest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 9:58 AM -0500 7/1/05, John Kristoff wrote:
>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)?
>
>>From 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.
It's also worth remembering that packet-switched networks took
decades to eclipse circuit-based networks and that the early Internet
was, for all intents and purposes, useless for the vast bulk of
humanity in addition to being a tax-funded research project.
It takes a lot of seeds to grow a field of wheat.
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