Isaiah Berlin, the founder of my Oxford college wrote "In the field of
political philosophy, novelty is not a virtue." He wasn't that keen on novelty
in other fields either, criticising academics for prefering novelty for truth.
I am an engineer, not an academic.
I try to learn from past efforts - both negative and positive. You on the other
hand demand that we consider the 1983 design of the Internet as sacrosanct,
except of course when you are sneering at people for proposing '1980s
technology'.
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:10 PM
To: Stephen Kent
Cc: Hallam-Baker, Phillip; RJ Atkinson; Sam Hartman; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: The Internet 2.0 box Was: IPv6 addresses really
are scarce after all
The DNS is a 1980's technology. We used hosts.txt prior to that.
yeah, that was a typo. (and I do remember using hosts.txt)
though somehow, 1980s technology doesn't sound a lot better.
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