openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Sarick
Re: Seriously?
Actually, researchers are doing exactly what researchers should be doing and what they have always done. There are a lot of theses that are conceived every year that look great on paper but will never be funded or ever thought about again.
Some of the concepts dreamt about may work their way into future network upgrades, but the likelihood of a full out Internet rebuild isn't going to happen due to numerous reasons, of which $$ is the obvious one. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
 ·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
| said by openbox9  :Actually, researchers are doing exactly what researchers should be doing and what they have always done. There are a lot of theses that are conceived every year that look great on paper but will never be funded or ever thought about again. Some of the concepts dreamt about may work their way into future network upgrades, but the likelihood of a full out Internet rebuild isn't going to happen due to numerous reasons, of which $$ is the obvious one. I dunno... The current TCP/IP based IPv4 Internet subsumed a number of competing networking standards over the decades. Were someone to come up with something that was sufficiently superior, then TCP/IP would be replaced too.
Am I the only one here who remembers the joy of sending email from one network type to another? Or working in an office where different work groups had incompatible LAN technologies?
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StreetSpirit
Premium
join:2002-08-13
Roslyn, NY
·Optimum Online
·Verizon Online DSL
| Definitely not. I still have lucid nightmares about trying to integrate an ancient 10base2 network built from Artisoft Lantastic NICs with an ancient tokenring network and make the whole mess run Netware.
In my nightmares, everyone can hear me scream (but nobody has a clue why) - I scream in JCL.
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