Is the sender anonymous or could we know name and affiliation?
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Thanks,
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Henry Sinnreich
MCI
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Subject: Re: Solving the right problems ...
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Vinton,
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I bow to your position.� We once had offices very close to each other.�
Remember MCI Mail?
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I am surprised you're back with MCI or whatever.�
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But...
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Having quietly listened to what's being said, who's saying it, and where
they are ...
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I am reading email from some good thinkers, obviously good people, not quite
open source gnomes, but close.�� What's in it for me, or the world?
�Obviously IETF picks some pretty nice places to meet.� And it is a pretty
impressive org to work with to pretend to care about making a difference.�
Hey, if you're in academia and want to eat, you'd better get some corporate
funding.� Where do we go from here?� Eating good.� Unemployment bad.�
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Well OK, what's best?� What's acceptable?� What keeps people
employed?�Bottom up?� Start with the itsy-bitsy, bit-by-bit lower level
protocol bits and bytes and try to complete the Tower of Babel (which by the
way I think was in Iraq), or take an Alan Turing type deep thinking approach
that no employing company can or will afford?� (I wonder why he ate an apple
spiced with cyanide?)�
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OK.
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Here's the point more specifically.� Considering the DEEP ISSUES people are
beginning to discuss ( OK you do recognize them as deep issues right?) IETF
is at a crossroad.� A "paradigm shift" from within is not possible.� Not
given the funding employers.� Or the controlling employers.� Do you have the
chutzpah or the intellectual purity to see the future beyond your next pay
check?� Or, is this beyond the IETF, which I suspect is the case.� Or do we
just wait for the�Tower to complete and buy a farm in Montana?�
