Isaiah Berlin, the founder of my Oxford college wrote "In the field of political philosophy, novelty is not a virtue." He wasn't that keen on novelty in other fields either, criticising academics for prefering novelty for truth. I am an engineer, not an academic. I try to learn from past efforts - both negative and positive. You on the other hand demand that we consider the 1983 design of the Internet as sacrosanct, except of course when you are sneering at people for proposing '1980s technology'. > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:10 PM > To: Stephen Kent > Cc: Hallam-Baker, Phillip; RJ Atkinson; Sam Hartman; ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: The Internet 2.0 box Was: IPv6 addresses really > are scarce after all > > > The DNS is a 1980's technology. We used hosts.txt prior to that. > yeah, that was a typo. (and I do remember using hosts.txt) > > though somehow, 1980s technology doesn't sound a lot better. > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf