Carl Malamud wrote:
- Vint points out that there are some fundamental protocol issues...
Dave "Crock" Crocker pontificates:
> As Carl cites, there are serious technical issues that the interplanetary
> metaphor poses. Solutions to those problems have real and immediate
> application, for example for the crew of a marine research vessel whose
> only link to the Internet is an outrageously expensive satellite channel,
> or folks in developing countries who have, perhaps, a noisy 9.6kbps line
> into the entire country. The better we learn to deal with limited
> bandwidth, severe signal distortion and large latency, the better the
> overall performance of the net and the satisfaction of users will
> be. Folks are already realizing that the long-haul Internet really does
> not perform well for true client/server exchanges. We need to fix that.
We ned to fix ICANN. The universe can wait.
ICANN is not only busted it threatens to put
all citizen's rights, freedoms and liberties
in jeopardy. Your top down, pie in the sky,
bullshit Star Trek nonsense expostulating is
wasting our time. Focus on reality you freaking
pompous, adolescent space cadets you!
Bob Allisat
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