Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:01:51AM -0500, Mike Nolan wrote:
> > What I think is needed is some kind of central 'transfer of payments'
> > authority for the entire Internet, analagous to what the long distance
> > phone carriers have.
>
> This would kill the 'net. If you think the arguments we have over
> things like control of DNS are bad, the outright wars that would
> erupt over this would make those look like minor skirmishes.
Good point. Let's leave the current cooperative model of the internet
unchanged and make plans for a new network. A network which would be
interconnected with the internet and it's workings would be mostly
indistinguishable from how the internet works for the ordinary end user,
but where TCP/IP is replaced by a pair of protocals which implement
Mike Nolan's idea. I am sure this new network will very quickly start
to offer better services than the 'old' internet, and hence become a
great commercial success for the many network infrastructure companies
that will participate in it.
> And that`s
> without even getting into the technical details of implementing this,
> a nightmare that I don't even want to think about.
You don't have to.... some people will be interested in designing and
implementing this; that is going to be a real challenge, yes, but you
see, some people like challenges.
> It's been discussed before
Do you remember where this has been discussed, and who proposed this
kinds of ideas?
This topic is getting off-topic for this list; I'd like to see a separate
list started for this topic (and if I someone would be so kind to suggest
a suitable name for this new list, I'll be happy to host it:)
-- NB.
