Death of the Internet - details at 11

"Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net> Mon, 12 January 2004 19:14 UTC

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From: Tony Hain <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
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Subject: Death of the Internet - details at 11
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:02:48 -0800
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While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should
be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to
come. 
http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/

Like it or not, the IETF must stop wasting time and effort building new
structures on a crumbling framework. A quick scan of the IESG document queue
shows that the vast majority of the workload is still not seriously focused
on making IPv6 the default protocol. 

Happy new year,
Tony