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[Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>]

At 5:12 PM +0800 6/24/97, Dave Crocker / IMC wrote:

>         And apparently it's only Tony who would be paying attention to that
> history.  No chance that those of us who have actually done the WORK of
> creating and building the Internet might actually use that history as a
> basis for careful evaluation of present behavior and might even be able to
> do that competently.

Far be it from me to disagree with that statement, but you're missing a
critical piece of the equation. The "old academic" internet that you
built was only supposed to withstand a nuclear war. It was never
designed to withstand the economic warfare that goes on everyday in the
business world (nor was it designed to withstand AOL users :). While
the internet's design is adequately robust in an academic and military
environment, it continues to display an extremely poor design with
regard to supporting today's commerce. Why? Because commercial
activities were unnacceptable on the internet up until a few years ago.
The current state of the top level domains is a key area where the old
design is very obviously broken. Another is spam filter standards
(which are still in their infancy).

Your attempts, within the IAHC, to apply an academic band-aid "patch"
the top level space are admirable but very much incomplete for today's
real world usage. This is exemplified by the fact that you don't even
acknowledge any of the real work that has been done in providing
complete and viable working models of alternative DNS structures. This
is, of course, akin to chopping your legs off before you run a
marathon. An unwise choice at best.

This isn't your father's internet anymore.


Best Regards,

Simon

-- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to
the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, ILP 1996