Re: [Nethistory] Collecting the history of networking, a possible methodology

Scott Brim <swb@internet2.edu> Thu, 23 May 2013 11:43 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 07:42:44 -0400
From: Scott Brim <swb@internet2.edu>
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Jake, this feels very top-down.  There are already a dozen attempts at
Internet history.  In other areas we've found that everyone has their
own way of doing things, and attempts at unification are likely to fail.
 I suggest that instead of unification you try for federation -- find a
way to include existing attempts, and not require them to reorganize.

Scott