The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>]

At 10:12 AM 5/29/96 -0400, Eric W. Gray wrote:

>
>Which raises an interesting point: with government sponsorship becoming
>less significant as a driving force in the Internet, who are the paying
>customers?
>

Well, the paying customers are the paying customers.  :-)

>I'd say that it's a very good thing that most of IP's competition will
>probably dry up and blow away with IPv6 (but, then, don't take overly
>long in getting IPv6 out either...).
>

Let's not put the cart before the proverbial horse. I think it remains
to be seen how ready-and-willing the Internet community wil be to
accept IPv6 with open arms. Chances are that if IPv6 and NGtrans prove
to be awkward, painful & excessively complex, it will be resisted and
unwelcome. We'll just have to see what comes out in the wash. Its too
early to tell.

>
>I suspect that the mix of Intranet/Internet has changed since the NSF
>was mandating Internet protocols.  Where would you like to bet most of
>the technology investment is now?
>

I know where I would like for it to be, but that's another discussion
entirely. ;-)

- paul