[81923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Jul 3 22:07:49 2005
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:07:17 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0507031405510.11558@twin.uoregon.edu>; from Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu> on Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:08:39PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:08:39PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote:
> > 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?
>
> edison didn't invent the light bulb...
So he didn't. And me a regular Wikipedian...</ot>
Cheers,
-- jra
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