[Gllug] Strange Attractor Talk

[Walid]

is that same as consume? posted on slashdot

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20010926s0003/1001_bar.html

 
--- Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2001
14:09, you wrote:
> > Emmm... time for some fighting talk.
> > If you are interested in the project, and are interested in these issues,
> > then why not join in?
> 
> :) I guess because it looks like a pie-in-the-sky club. 
> 
> > Join the consume list, and the consume legal list.
> 
> I have read through the archives in the past. I don't remember anything at 
> all practical going on. There seemed to be a lot of talk about how it should 
> work, etc., but no concrete evidence of anything that could be strung 
> together. consume-legal seemed very quiet, and touched on issues such as 
> spectrum a little, but people seemed more interested in generating AUPs 
> rather than addressing key issues (ie.: is consume legal in the first 
> place??).
> 
> Even a brief look through I had just now, consume-routing was hilarious. The 
> rejection of private addressing, the lack of any firm idea of how such a 
> system might route without a mother-of-all routing table. The standardisation
> 
> on ipv6 immediately makes consume impractical for anyone except hardcore 
> geeks (I have too many devices which talk ipv4 for that to be practical, and 
> I expect any 802.11 gear I get - iPaqs spring to mind - may not even support 
> it even if I wished to use it).
> 
> Perhaps I'm being overly sceptical, but it does seem to be a drop-out zone 
> for Unix admins wanting to set up some private empire using expensive 
> equipment, uncommon protocols and hideous OSes., longing for the good old 
> days of punch-cards and mainframes.
> 
> Flames welcome :)
> 
> (and probably deserved)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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