Re: understanding consensus

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Vince,

  Please read below your comments.

Vince Wolodkin wrote:
> 
> Since your email address is non-existent, and since I just CAN'T sit
> here without replying, I am doing so through the list.  They just may
> find your TRUE feelings enlightening.
> 

> >
> > Of course we are. What the FUCK is wrong with that???
> >
> 
> Nothing, but I feel that the end-users are the people to protect here.
> Absent any meaningful regulation of this process, we need to institute a
> system where the user is protected.
> 
> 
> Great, spend away.  It's good for the internet, it's bad for you.  News
> Flash, you are not the internet.
> 

> I seriously doubt that without you the internet would disappear
> overnight.  I think you overrate yourself.  Plenty of companies will be
> willing to provide internet connectivity WITHOUT raping the public for a
> domain name.
> > Whats wrong with people getting rich? Whats wrong with people making
> > money and using it to develope and deploy multi-gigabit switching nodes
> > for internet backbone traffic - what the fuck do you think - that
> > this hardware grows on trees. It costs $30k for a lousy little Cisco
> > 4000 with one DS-3 connection and a few T-1's. How much do you think
> > a whole switchroom of fiber optics and Cisco 7500 Packet switches
> > would cost. (I'll give you a hint - we are involved in the design of
> > one now: Try about $23 million dollars).
> >
> > Who pays for all of this??
> >
> 
> Well, lots of companies manage to make money AND provide large
> backbones.  I think I call them MCI, UUnet, PSI, and Sprint.  They seem
> to be able to afford all of this without robbing the public.  I don't
> see how your business expenses lead to the justification that you should
> be allowed to monopolize a public trust.

  Well, I wouldn't include MCI, PSI and sprint.  

Regards,


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Jeffrey A. Williams
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Information Eng. Group. 
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