Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction
Noel Chiappa <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> Thu, 25 July 1996 16:58 UTC
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From: Noel Chiappa <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: bass@linux.silkroad.com, bilse@eu.net
Subject: Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction
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From: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com> Let's don't worry about "what Dr. Metcalfe" says, how-bout-it? and think what is pragmatic and useful. Too bad you didn't take you own advice and focus on the issue at hand, and not attacking other peoples' technical abilities. I find it amusing that we need Dr. Metcalfe to formula opinions of the future of IP internetworking based on his substantial and significant contributions to IEEE 802. This is not to take away from the important contribution of Dr. Metcalfe ... Certainly a noted contribution to the engineering field with regard to networking does not make an omnipotent oracle for internetworking.... I'm puzzled about how to reconcile your assertions with the facts that i) Bob Metcalfe was one of the chief designers of Xerox's PUP, which was the first operational internetworking protocol, and thus has some useful experience in this field, and ii) based on his work there, was involved in the early work on what became TCP and IP (since at that point, they were not separate protocols). Sure, I don't exactly bow down in his direction three times daily, but he's not totally ignorant. Now, can we stick to the issue at hand, please, and enough dumping on people (lest the list of targets of similar behaviour get expanded, eh?) Noel
- Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" predic… George Michaelson
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Michael Dillon
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Tim Bass
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Matthew James Marnell
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Michael Shields
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Per Gregers Bilse
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Tim Bass
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Noel Chiappa
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Tim Bass
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Dave Crocker
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… George Michaelson
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Kent W. England
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Randy Bush
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Michael Dillon
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Dave Crocker
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… George Michaelson
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Jeremy Porter
- Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" pr… Geoff Huston