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Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 09 August 2012 15:06 UTC

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> Remember that we are trying to build a network that is going to last
> for hundreds if not thousands of years.

some of us do not have such hubris.  

> I don't think it likely that the RIRs or ICANN or even the IETF lasts
> that long. If it does it will be in a very different form.

i suspect the same is true for the internet.  i bet it will be quite
different in much less than a hundred years.

so can we please stick to engineering, not omnipotence.

randy

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