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Re: "redesign[ing] the architecture of the Internet"

2001-02-04 15:30:02
Today we have transparent proxies, reverse caches, global DNS redirectors,
and all sorts of other amusing Things.  You can say they're not part of the
architecture.  But what does it mean?  They're there because the
functionality needs to be there and otherwise wasn't.  The same could be
said about NATs, as bad as they are.  Remember Ritchie's famous quote, "you
can fill a void and it could still suck"?  The fact is X is here as opposed
to something better.

no argument about that.  so now that these things are here and we
understand their deficiencies, let's work on something better!

Keith