Vinton retiring to a cabin in Montana? (......this is ominous......vaguely
horrifying visions based on the "War Games" come flitting by......) Will you
be leaving us any WOPRs in IPv6? :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: vinton g. cerf [mailto:vcerf(_at_)MCI(_dot_)NET]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:56 AM
To: jdunn(_at_)yipes(_dot_)com; 'Paul Robinson'; 'Tripp
Lilley'
Cc: 'Keith Moore'; 'Greg Skinner'; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?
At 10:39 AM 5/8/2000 -0700, Jim Stephenson-Dunn wrote:
>No! We don't want to fix the holes! We want to keep a
record of them
>without telling the admins, and when they misbehave, not
only can we pop
>their kneecaps, set fire to their house, release
information to their
>families they wouldn't want to be released, but also as a
grand finale,
>we can take control of the machine and do what we wanted
anyway.
>Eventually, we as the IETF would have complete control of
every machine
>connected to the Internet, thereby giving us control of the
entire
>planet, which in turn would allow us to park wherever we
wanted and
>*not*get*a*ticket*!!!!!! :-)
Dang! Jim's gone and uncovered my nefarious retirement plan.
Now I'll
have to think of something else :-(
Jim, you left out the "Nyah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" part...
vint
p.s. apologies to IETF list for cluttering with this. It
just slipped out.
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