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

2001-02-04 22:10:04

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  *> Keith, you lived through the OSI Wars, the explosion of the Web and the
  *> exponential growth of the past 15 years. To now write about things being
  *> "done slowly and deliberately" suggests that you missed something here.
  *> The "Internet Architecture" didn't spring full blown from the brow of a
  *> collective benevolent elite, and the role of the IETF today isn't to

You have one thing right... it wasn't "collective" in the modern IETF
sense.  Otherwise, this discussion seems to bear little relationship
to the actual background history of Internet development.  Not that
the actual history is particularly relevant to today...

Bob Braden