Re: Protest: Complexity running rampant

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

Bob Braden wrote:
> Why is "near term" an essential requirement?  If the Internet designers 
> had opted for the
> "near term", we would all be running some flavor of X.25 today.


Research vs. engineering.

Standards are for engineering.  When they don't solve near-term problems they 
tend not to solve any problems at all.

d/

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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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