Actually most ISP's now charge an admin fee to process the DMCA take-downs, so the University could put a charge on responding to the notices.
The real issue is that basic network bandwidth is too expensive to provide free, the answer is simply to charge for use over some basic usage amount that you feel is covered by tuition. This is a tragedy of the commons situation that the free commons get overused to the point that it is useless.
Having read this I had the feeling that Vinge's future comes to pass the technology choices we engineer today and basic privacy rights will make as big difference to tomorrow. There was a strong sense of user choice in public verse private information in the piece that is not clear in many interfaces today. Of course some problems of today like clear legal statements still echo'ed nicely in the piece.
A cure for world hunger it is not and you are correct in that often it is possitioned as too many things it is not, but for your points on network instability, full mesh LSP's and QoS. Thats just learning about design.
The simple put their are better ways to design both MPLS VPN's and QoS. Simple two class diff-serve, expedite forward and best effort, should normally be enough QoS to get you voice accross and let the data drop as it may. It does not take a huge amout of resources to manage two queues even if things are ticking along on a OC-48. On LSP's as VPN's do not touch all point on the edge it is just logical to build as required.
On administrative boundry, MPLS VPN is not the issue it is getting involved in a customers routing, the whole bundled vs. unbundled approuch. If an SP are providing is providing a managed IPSec VPN or a managed Frame Relay service where the CPE routers fall into the administrative domain the challenge remains. The draft-martini work for L2 over MPLS will provide this type of service for MPLS networks.
Ray wrote a book called the The Age of Intelligent Machines in 1990 and then a second called The Age of Spiritaul Machines in 1999(ISBN 0-75380-767-X) The Spiritual one goes into the whole Moore's Law unbounded subject into more depth than just until we get to an AI. It considers what happens to humans our bodies, augmentations and what are some ideas for the convergence. The human AI meld as an end concept is the spiritual machine idea.
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Actually most ISP's now charge an admin fee to process the DMCA take-downs, so the University could put a charge on responding to the notices.
The real issue is that basic network bandwidth is too expensive to provide free, the answer is simply to charge for use over some basic usage amount that you feel is covered by tuition. This is a tragedy of the commons situation that the free commons get overused to the point that it is useless.
Having read this I had the feeling that Vinge's future comes to pass the technology choices we engineer today and basic privacy rights will make as big difference to tomorrow. There was a strong sense of user choice in public verse private information in the piece that is not clear in many interfaces today. Of course some problems of today like clear legal statements still echo'ed nicely in the piece.
A cure for world hunger it is not and you are correct in that often it is possitioned as too many things it is not, but for your points on network instability, full mesh LSP's and QoS. Thats just learning about design. The simple put their are better ways to design both MPLS VPN's and QoS. Simple two class diff-serve, expedite forward and best effort, should normally be enough QoS to get you voice accross and let the data drop as it may. It does not take a huge amout of resources to manage two queues even if things are ticking along on a OC-48. On LSP's as VPN's do not touch all point on the edge it is just logical to build as required. On administrative boundry, MPLS VPN is not the issue it is getting involved in a customers routing, the whole bundled vs. unbundled approuch. If an SP are providing is providing a managed IPSec VPN or a managed Frame Relay service where the CPE routers fall into the administrative domain the challenge remains. The draft-martini work for L2 over MPLS will provide this type of service for MPLS networks.
Ray wrote a book called the The Age of Intelligent Machines in 1990 and then a second called The Age of Spiritaul Machines in 1999(ISBN 0-75380-767-X) The Spiritual one goes into the whole Moore's Law unbounded subject into more depth than just until we get to an AI. It considers what happens to humans our bodies, augmentations and what are some ideas for the convergence. The human AI meld as an end concept is the spiritual machine idea.