Re: Statements against new.net?

That is based on the assumption that consistency is necessary or desireable :) Of course, it is dear to an engineer's mind, but the case from the sociological point of view is far from clear-cut. In fact, way too many woes of human societies can be (at least indirectly) attributed to the misguided attempts to enforce consistency. --vadim

It said that there needs to be one root, regardless of how that is chosen. The notion that "the various operators act as they best see fit" is precisely the kind of thing we want to discourage, since that leads towards inconsistency.

--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb