Bill, your "vision" about statics taking over made me laugh for quite a while. Nobody is about to replace dynamic routing with static. What Randy is talking about is a technique to avoid generation irrelevant rotuing updates. I.e. the rest of the network does not have to be informed that some of your interior LANs fell off, ok?

In the end, the Internet looks just like the telco mesh.

At least telephones work; and work reliably. Unlike Internet. And telephone network is orders of magnitude bigger than Internet; and went through numerous radical technology changes without losing integrity. Guess, telco engineers did something right. --vadim