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Re: Brainstorm how to fix the Internet: go. by Ray of Light 03/20/2005, 10:24pm PST
laudablepuss wrote:

I missed the Intelligent Network idea in there. Is that the "Treat End Users Like The Dummies They Are" plan or the "Pry PCs From Their Cold Dead Hands" plan? :(


The first one. There's nothing in AT&T's plan that precludes independent network operators doing what they think is best and competing for user dollars; nothing to prevent the users from supplementing the network's defenses with their own, or subverting them with tunneling. His armwaving about centralized planning and comparisons to a monopoly-era telco are boogeymen.

Ray!
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