On Mar 8, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Tony Li wrote: > What other potential options do you envision which might provide some >> reasonable probability of avoiding this Catch-22? > > > A shift in the carriers away from anything IP based. > > Tony
Unless I'm missing something, I think that we're agreeing with each other. Or rather, the shift that you suggest here sounds to me like a path that tilts in the direction of the "adversarial" outcome that I tried to describe -- i.e., a future in which open innovation becomes rare, improbable, and/or very expensive unless/until someone comes up with an entirely new way to route around whatever that new not-IP thing is. I guess it could go the other way, assuming that the post-IP thing is once again an open standard, albeit one that does not create or depend on any scarce protocol element(s), and that could be freely adopted and implemented on an ad hoc basis by anyone... Is that the sort of post-IP thing that you had in mind, or think is likely to emerge? TV _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list rrg@irtf.org http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
