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Re: Protest: Complexity running rampant

2007-02-19 15:37:14


Bob Braden wrote:
Why is "near term" an essential requirement? If the Internet designers had opted for the
"near term", we would all be running some flavor of X.25 today.


Research vs. engineering.

Standards are for engineering. When they don't solve near-term problems they tend not to solve any problems at all.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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