[8628] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: An Open Letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Smith)
Sat Nov 27 19:16:37 1993
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 16:10:57 -0800
To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
From: smith@sfu.ca (Richard Smith)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, walkerl@med.ge.com
>> Larry wrote:
>> Well, my simplistic conceptual answer is that we should design the
>> fundamental architecture of the Internet so that no one party is even ABLE
>> to capriciously disrupt it...
>
>Dick wrote:
>Agreed! I just couldn't think of a way to do this within the current
>state of routing technology as I understand it. ATM is coming, but
If you are thinking ahead to ATM, what about further out, to this
"fibresphere" stuff (Paul Green, described in Gilder's pieces in Forbes
ASAP and posted on the net a while back)?
This looks like a scheme that avoids the problems of routing by doing none.
...r
