*> From owner-ietf@ietf.org Sun Jun 8 18:27:12 2003 *> From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com> *> To: "'ietf@ietf.org'" <ietf@ietf.org> *> Subject: Re: Certificate / CPS issues *> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:16:32 -0700 *> MIME-Version: 1.0 *> X-AntiVirus: scanned by AMaViS 0.2.1 *> *> Lets try a thought experiment. Imagine for a moment someone came to this *> forum in 1990 proposing say lossy packet routing could never possibly work *> because nobody could rely on such a system, pointing out that the Internet *> was minute compared to the telephone system and that therefore the Internet *> could never possibly be built. Furthermore the fact that the OSI networking *> stack was poorly specified and X.500 would inevitably fail meant that the *> Internet could not possibly work. *> Actually, in 1990 a vocal set of people *were* saying exactly those things. Bob Braden