Re: Fwd: Re: [Asrg] Consent Proposal

> In message <5.2.0.9.2.20030630142433.00ba85f0@std5.imagineis.com>, Yakov 
> Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> writes
> 
> 
> >>>>>. Third, inter-operability with existing email is a big problem as 
> >>>>>well since no one would want to use an alternative system unless 
> >>>>>many people will switch over to it and many people will not switch 
> >>>>>others use it.
> 
> <set mode way back>
> I'm sorry Alexander Graham Bell, we can't possibly accept this new 
> fangled telephone thing you've just invented because the above quote 
> claims a catch 22 for deployment. It'll never work
> 

From the charter:
"ASRG will consider the issues of deployment for proposed solutions,
emphasizing the investigation of methods that have a realistic chance of
wide-scale deployment."

Incidentally, Bell got his patent in 1876, I have no idea how many
telephone users there were 20 years after that, but I guess many fewer than
used the telegraph. It's only in the last 50 years that the telephone has
become ubiquitous (in the "developed" world). I can remember when my mother
got the telephone installed (ca. 1966). You want to wait that long?

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