1 Dec
2003
1 Dec
'03
2:56 p.m.
this is the ability of a single host operator to make their own local policy decisions. which leads to the heat death of the net or allows the net to prosper, since policy is distributed rather than centralised.
consider verifying, or making any assertions about, or having any confidence in, the correctness of a universe of distributed and opaque policy. i once worked for an m&a isp which acquired some sixty+ small isps. my comment on the non-global thinkers in the acquisitions was "think locally, act globally." randy