Re: [Enum] RFC1530 (TPC.INT)

At 07:05 PM 2/22/2001, Richard Shockey wrote:
>TPC.INT was a useful experiment ..nothing more.

Stephane,

An alternative view.

TPC.INT was not only an incredibly innovative protocol and use
of the Internet's distributed entrepreneurial properties by
two of the Internet's most celebrated developers, it was a
political statement if not movement heard around the world
when it was first announced at Interop in 1994.

Lycos hotbot currently gets nearly 10,000 hits in every corner
of the globe for TPC.INT and its services are still relied
upon by a great many people, albeit apparently not by Richard.

The Phone Company's fax bypass and remote paging services
were a statement to the ITU and it's highly structured
PTO communities, that a set of autonomous entities could
independently organize themselves to provide telco
services.  Needless to say, it caused considerable
consternation in some quarters that led to a subsequent
largely ITU Secretariat let effort to tuck some kind of
formal ITU designated e164 zone under INT.

TPC.INT's leadership also inspired a broadbased
IP Telephony movement - the results of which we see
today.

--tony

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