Re: "redesign[ing] the architecture of the Internet"

[Keith Moore]

> Today we have transparent proxies, reverse caches, global DNS redirectors,
> and all sorts of other amusing Things.  You can say they're not part of the
> architecture.  But what does it mean?  They're there because the
> functionality needs to be there and otherwise wasn't.  The same could be
> said about NATs, as bad as they are.  Remember Ritchie's famous quote, "you
> can fill a void and it could still suck"?  The fact is X is here as opposed
> to something better.

no argument about that.  so now that these things are here and we
understand their deficiencies, let's work on something better!

Keith