The one great flaw I consistently see from the Old Men of the Internet is that they are still thinking that DNS is something to be managed as a scarce resource. Domain names and TLDs are NOT scarce! Root servers can't handle another 100 TLDS? Puhleeze!
Instead of trying to invest in all of the political baggage to regulate something, they should be focused on an exit strategy of creating such abundance that regulation is unnecessary.
"And he said that if data network operators in the West were forced to adhere to the same regulations as voice operators then they would have to pay half the cost. "
This "idea" has been around for quite a while, I've heard it from N. American, European, Asian, and Australian ISPs. Everyone would love to have someone else pay for part of their connection, but no one ever comes up with a workable connection agreement.
Imagine this, lets set up a connection between our two Internet networks. You pay me for every byte you send me, I'll pay you for every byte I send you. For simplicty, it can even be the same rate (even though we may have very different coverages, costs, etc). This is not unlike the voice world type of interconnect agreements.
Now lets play the game. Guess how much email AOL is going to send to Africa/Australia/Europe if they have to pay additionally to do so? How much web surfing will you do in Africa/Australia/Europe? Oh wait, I have to pay to send you the contents of the site? No thanks.
This is not exploitation (isn't this essentially trying to place the race card?), it's market economics. As these markets grow and mature they will be able to strike better deals w/ other providers, today they cannot.
Exactly. How much do you think your company is spending on rent/furniture/utilities? Add in you your costs for transport (vehicle, upkeep, tolls, gas). Add in "opportunity costs" of that lost time in your commute.
Telecommuting is a huge plus, don't expect your employer to automatically pay for you to sit around in your underware working from home.
If Bush wins Florida he has 271 electoral votes, but what if thats not the end of the story...
Nebraska and Maine aren't winner take all states. Winner of the popular gets 2 and each district winner gets 1 each. I don't know if this was factored into the electoral counts or not that are at CNN.
Additionally, the electoral college is not obligated by law to follow the popular vote in about half of the states. There is precedent (rare) of delegates switching a vote. It would only take a two delegates to switch to Gore (abassadorships anyone?) and you got a whole new game....
Umm, no. "Hot potato" is the term of art used by everyone to describe the routing of packets between two ISPs. If you and I interconnect at the east coast and west coast and one of my east coast customers wants to talk to one of your west coast customers, I will hand you the traffic on the east coast and you will hand me the traffic on the west coast.
Majors will get peering right when there is a compelling business model to do so. I've worked in this space for 6 years and seen every pointy haired boss look this over and say "and we give this away?" and not been able to come up with an alternative that was workable.
The current sender keeps all (SKA) model of interconnection will always lead to tragedy of the commons type congestion.
InterNAP is at least a stab at a business model that tries to solve this, time will tell if they get it right.
With Tivo you tell it that you want to watch certain shows *regardless of when they are on*. Thats what the dialup is for.. to get the schedule to facilitate this. Every season it seems that there is a show that I want to watch that floats all over the time slots. Tivo knows what I want to see and finds it and records it.
In addition, based on user input, it finds and records shows that it thinks I might be interested in. And does a surprisingly good job at it.
If you don't want this service, don't pay! Tivo doesn't require the service fee to work. You can still use the box to watch and pause live TV.
NB, plenty of people *do* pay money for TV listings... look at TV guide magazine. And unlike a magazine or a website, this is integrated into my TV.. at any point I can click and see a transparent window with the current guide. Awesome!
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Answered before at http://www1.worldcom.com/global/resources/cerfs_up /internet_history/q_and_a.xml#question_11
Need more address space. He's said this before.
The one great flaw I consistently see from the Old Men of the Internet is that they are still thinking that DNS is something to be managed as a scarce resource. Domain names and TLDs are NOT scarce! Root servers can't handle another 100 TLDS? Puhleeze!
Instead of trying to invest in all of the political baggage to regulate something, they should be focused on an exit strategy of creating such abundance that regulation is unnecessary.
Repeat after me. The Web is not the Internet. The Web is not the Internet. The Web is not the Internet.
For example, how does google help with email? Do you really want bob@sdoiyfkah12esdc.com?
"And he said that if data network operators in the West were forced to adhere to the same regulations as voice operators then they would have to pay half the cost. "
This "idea" has been around for quite a while, I've heard it from N. American, European, Asian, and Australian ISPs. Everyone would love to have someone else pay for part of their connection, but no one ever comes up with a workable connection agreement.
Imagine this, lets set up a connection between our two Internet networks. You pay me for every byte you send me, I'll pay you for every byte I send you. For simplicty, it can even be the same rate (even though we may have very different coverages, costs, etc). This is not unlike the voice world type of interconnect agreements.
Now lets play the game. Guess how much email AOL is going to send to Africa/Australia/Europe if they have to pay additionally to do so? How much web surfing will you do in Africa/Australia/Europe? Oh wait, I have to pay to send you the contents of the site? No thanks.
This is not exploitation (isn't this essentially trying to place the race card?), it's market economics. As these markets grow and mature they will be able to strike better deals w/ other providers, today they cannot.
Exactly. How much do you think your company is spending on rent/furniture/utilities? Add in you your costs for transport (vehicle, upkeep, tolls, gas). Add in "opportunity costs" of that lost time in your commute.
Telecommuting is a huge plus, don't expect your employer to automatically pay for you to sit around in your underware working from home.
Is this what they want? http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=rechr 100b
If Bush wins Florida he has 271 electoral votes, but what if thats not the end of the story... Nebraska and Maine aren't winner take all states. Winner of the popular gets 2 and each district winner gets 1 each. I don't know if this was factored into the electoral counts or not that are at CNN. Additionally, the electoral college is not obligated by law to follow the popular vote in about half of the states. There is precedent (rare) of delegates switching a vote. It would only take a two delegates to switch to Gore (abassadorships anyone?) and you got a whole new game....
Umm, no. "Hot potato" is the term of art used by everyone to describe the routing of packets between two ISPs. If you and I interconnect at the east coast and west coast and one of my east coast customers wants to talk to one of your west coast customers, I will hand you the traffic on the east coast and you will hand me the traffic on the west coast.
Majors will get peering right when there is a compelling business model to do so. I've worked in this space for 6 years and seen every pointy haired boss look this over and say "and we give this away?" and not been able to come up with an alternative that was workable. The current sender keeps all (SKA) model of interconnection will always lead to tragedy of the commons type congestion. InterNAP is at least a stab at a business model that tries to solve this, time will tell if they get it right.
With Tivo you tell it that you want to watch certain shows *regardless of when they are on*. Thats what the dialup is for.. to get the schedule to facilitate this. Every season it seems that there is a show that I want to watch that floats all over the time slots. Tivo knows what I want to see and finds it and records it. In addition, based on user input, it finds and records shows that it thinks I might be interested in. And does a surprisingly good job at it. If you don't want this service, don't pay! Tivo doesn't require the service fee to work. You can still use the box to watch and pause live TV. NB, plenty of people *do* pay money for TV listings... look at TV guide magazine. And unlike a magazine or a website, this is integrated into my TV.. at any point I can click and see a transparent window with the current guide. Awesome!
http://www.privatebuy.com/ from ecount.