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> I don't know which is scarier. Lucent/Bell Labs trying to design > the next generation Internet architecture, or Cisco trying to > design the next generation DCN/SS7 architecture. the contest is keen. for a nice view of this insanity fueled by greed, paranoia, greed, and oh greed, see the ieprep wg of the ietf. > The public telephone network is still the largest network on the > planet yup, and it transports less. is there a lesson about complexity in that? > How do you explain Internet security to a telco engineer. Or the > concept that the Internet doesn't have a LERG, but somehow ISPs > figure out how to get traffic from point A to point B. Or the > biggie, that stuff is expected to fail, so that's why you buy > lots of simple, cheap ones instead of one big, expensive, > never-fail box. dave meyer has been trying in draft-ymbk-arch-guidelines-03.txt, and will give a bit of a talk on this at ie-piggy on sunday. randy
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