On Wed, Mar 14, 2001, Mathew Butler wrote:
Adrian: The key word is "cooperating". New.net (and its brethren that are being born in technology incubators as we speak) are not "cooperating", they're intentionally "culture-jamming" for their own gain.
Strange .. three replies, three mis-interpratations from what I meant. Ok, lets try to restate and clarify what I was trying to say.
Hrm. Somewhere along the line I remember the Internet being defined as a bunch of networks cooperating in order to exchange information.
When did that change? :-)
I'm not referring to us cooperating with new.net . Thats so the opposite scale of what I meant.
I'll be happy when more companies start to see that they canactually make money by fostering internet growth rather than making money by abusing internet growth.
.. and new.net aren't fostering internet growth, are they? :) When I said "a bunch of networks cooperating to exchange information" this kind of includes having a consistent view of naming, a unique view of address ranges and a standard set of protocols between networks. Now, when did *that* change? Adrian, noting that he's a problem solver, not an english major.. -- Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file <adrian@creative.net.au> from half way around the world should be viewed as an accident and not a right." -- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola