On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Brandon Butterworth <[email protected]> wrote: >> there is quite serious money with the label "Next Generation Internet" >> attached to it. At least 750 million euro, waiting to be put to good >> use. Typically the EC expect a consultation like this to yield maybe >> 50-100 responses, mostly from its usual suspects > > The usual suspects have it sewn up. We do a lot of EU funded work but > on Future Internet it was mostly spent by a few large telcos and > nothing useful came of it, we gave up as we were getting nowhere (was > costing us more in effort we could just use to do the work ourselves)
Well, say that to them, not to me! >> two decades and billions of Euro's of failed >> funding have shown that the regular way of working with huge consortia >> and projects working on fashionable 'innovations' has brought nothing >> that stuck. > > They did try breaking out of that, reality is they don't get to decide > what the future is and would be better giving the money to many smaller > projects to stir up the pool it may evolve out of. Exactly! ... For a goodly portion of my life I've been working off of a superset of http://the-edge.taht.net/post/gilmores_list/ > > brandon _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
