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Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Sun Jul 3 13:50:32 2005

Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 10:48:54 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050703134340.C27492@cgi.jachomes.com>
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On 07/03/05, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote: 

> How do we *know* there are no fundamentally new great concepts ...
> unless we *try a lot of stuff*.

	Trying stuff is good -- until something's tried, none of us can
	really know what it'll do.  At what point do entirely off-network
	experiments become on-topic for nanog?  (I doubt anyone has an
	easy answer, I just wanted to throw the question out there.)

> How many light bulbs did Edison throw away?

	42?

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J.D. Falk                                          a decade of cybernothing.org
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>                               registered 24 June 1995

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