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RE: Justify what you are doing and why you are doing it

2001-12-11 02:40:05
You are missing a lot.  The problems don't magically change because everyone 
has an IP address and a permanent connection.  They remain the same and the 
just grow in magnitude.  How can you justify making such a sweeping statement?

Getting packets from A to B involve a lot of question.  A *few* are:  How does 
A know B's address (maybe something like a distributed database system that 
maps names to addresses, we could call it the Domain Name System)?  How does A 
format the data so that B can understand it (maybe we can define structured way 
of doing this for different types of data.  We could create one for email and 
call it a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and one for web pages and we can call 
it the HyperText Transfer Protocol, and so on)? 

--->  Phil
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org 
[mailto:owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]On Behalf Of 
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  Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:10 AM
  To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
  Subject: Justify what you are doing and why you are doing it


  After studying a few e-mails on the ietf mail system I am coming to several 
conclusions.

  It will not be long before each house, never mind business, is assigned a 
unique IP address, and that each house or business will be permanently 
connected to the Internet.

  When this happens there will no longer be a need to have centrally served 
services, such as e-mail, DNS, POP3 or HTTP/HTTPS etc. Control over the 
Internet will revert back to the Internet community, where it belongs.

  Which means your task should realistically only be concerned with router 
technology and how to get IPv4 or IPv6 packets from A to B, and nothing else.

  I take it this is the case, or am I missing something?

  It just seems to me that there is far too much commercial interest 
controlling your agenda.



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