[81925] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Morris)
Sun Jul 3 22:27:43 2005
Reply-To: <swm@emanon.com>
From: "Scott Morris" <swm@emanon.com>
To: "'Jay R. Ashworth'" <jra@baylink.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:26:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050703220717.B11150@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
But he DID make it more feasible and useful. And he DID throw thousands of
them away!
;)
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Jay
R. Ashworth
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 10:07 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Fundamental changes to Internet architecture
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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