I wonder if Vic and Adam can become constructive about their comments and
crticisims within the DNS forum. I propose that we use the DNS forum for
the purpose it was setup for ie:  "providing input to the process by which
the name space is managed......"


Clive Flory
com.au Bureau Manager

At 21:52 5/03/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> >Garbage Vic. The success of the Internet itself is due mainly to 
>> >individuals and small groups getting off their butts and innovating 
>> >first, then showing the world. Design-by-committee is precisely why 
>> >ISO/OSI failed, and TCP/IP triumphed.
>> 
>> You now that's probably a very good example.  Consider it stolen for my
>> talks later this year.  I'll remember to credit you for it :)
>
>If you had asked, I might have given permission. As it is, I 
>explicitly do not. Please don't use it, credit or not.
>
>> I remember developing from tool kits in 1980's (mid), and people of high
>> regard in Australian Technology were laughing at me because I was wasting
>> my time developing with IP. "Netbios was the way to go. It works, it's
>> there now.  Why reinvent what works?"
>> 
>[...]
>> Where are those people today?  Some are ISP's, I bump into them every
>> nown-then.  Some have vanished completely, some are watching the world go
>> by because they are really not up to all these new fangled things, that
>> were really there before their time anyway.
>
>Right - so in ten years we've all gotten walking sticks and feeble 
>minded. One day Adam you'll post a message without taking a shot at 
>the rest of the world other than yourself. I sincerely hope 
>to live to see the day.
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