At 9:58 AM -0500 7/1/05, John Kristoff wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:53:53 GMT
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With all respect to Dave, and not to sound too skeptical,
but we're pretty far along in our current architecture to
"fundamentally" change, don't you think (emphasis on
fundamentally)?
From the article it seems clear that the focus is on 'new', not
'changed'. No need (and probably little likelihood now) to change
this architecture if you don't want to, but a new architecture may
come along that make this one seem quite outmoded.
It's also worth remembering that packet-switched networks took
decades to eclipse circuit-based networks and that the early Internet
was, for all intents and purposes, useless for the vast bulk of
humanity in addition to being a tax-funded research project.
It takes a lot of seeds to grow a field of wheat.
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