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"...handwaving arguments that "something bad might happen"..." ?

"Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net> Thu, 27 March 2003 15:39 UTC

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From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@ameritech.net>
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Subject: "...handwaving arguments that "something bad might happen"..." ?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:34:48 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
>
> This is so typical of the modern IETF -- 102 people were persuaded
> by handwaving arguments that "something bad might happen"

Imagine how much hand-waving 418 clueless people can do...
http://register.icann.org/cgi/attendees.cgi

...fortunately, 99.9% of the rest of the world can route around them via the InterNAT...

Jim Fleming
http://www.IPv8.info

Note: .GOV employees can make **purchasing decisions** about telecommunication protocols, they just can not spec them and develop
them and therefore warp the free markets in the United States of America.

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