Re: [dispatch] War of the Worlds (was Re: I-D Action: draft-malas-dispatch-sip-egress-route-00)

[Dean Willis <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
>
> I disagree profoundly with characterizing Rosenberg's Modest  
> Proposal as an
> appropriate summary of the issues, as it gets the analysis precisely  
> wrong.
> It proposes completely abandoning the vibrant world as a lost cause,  
> and
> embracing the stagnant world as the only path forward. This isn't just
> allowing collateral damage to the vibrant world for the sake of  
> expediency
> in stagnant world solutions -- it's a suggestion that we nuke the  
> vibrant
> world so it doesn't keep annoying people trying to develop stagnant
> solutions.
>

I have long speculated that perhaps the best thing we can do is punt  
the "stagnant world" stuff to a different forum. I seem to recall many  
times suggesting that SIP should just be moved to the ITU so we can  
get on with building the Internet. I'd happily add ENUM to the same  
bucket.

The problem is that we might wake up one day and realize that the  
Internet has been turned off, and all we have left is a stagnant  
backwater of telecommunications boundaries established by fat-and- 
happy politicos eager to preserve their own domains.

The alternative, perhaps, is to embrace stagnation. Then add chlorine.

--
Dean