Re: Justify what you are doing and why you are doing it

[ragnar at ragnartech.net]

> When this happens there will no longer be a need to have centrally served services, such as e-mail, DNS, POP3 or HTTP/HTTPS etc. Control over the Internet will revert back to the Internet community, where it belongs.
> 
> Which means your task should realistically only be concerned with router technology and how to get IPv4 or IPv6 packets from A to B, and nothing else.
> 
> I take it this is the case, or am I missing something?
> It just seems to me that there is far too much commercial interest controlling your agenda.

To start with, the IETF is the product of the Internet community working 
together to build and continuously develop the Internet, through standards
and protocols.  Even with IPv6, there needs to be an un-chaotic method
of assigning numbers to people, organizations, and businesses.  Supposing
everyone ran their own services within their homes, protocols still need
to exist for A and B to agree on how to communicate.  Further, centrally
served services will not disappear since the majority of people I know
don't care to run servers, but to make use of services.  Indeed routing
is an important piece of making very large networks of networks run
well, but it is still only a piece.  New technologies will emerge and
new methods of communicating will be developed.  For myself, I will
do what I can to help.

Peter Downs