*> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 8 18:27:12 2003 *> From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *> Subject: Re: Certificate / CPS issues *> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:16:32 -0700 *> MIME-Version: 1.0 *> X-AntiVirus: scanned by AMaViS 0.2.1 *> *> Lets try a thought experiment. Imagine for a moment someone came to this *> forum in 1990 proposing say lossy packet routing could never possibly work *> because nobody could rely on such a system, pointing out that the Internet *> was minute compared to the telephone system and that therefore the Internet *> could never possibly be built. Furthermore the fact that the OSI networking *> stack was poorly specified and X.500 would inevitably fail meant that the *> Internet could not possibly work. *>
Actually, in 1990 a vocal set of people *were* saying exactly those things. Bob Braden
