On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:12 59PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:45 -0800 james woodyatt > <jhw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> ... >> TAI has a fairly stable foundation in non-relativistic >> physics, which experience has shown to be somewhat resistant >> to the power of political bodies to modify at will, so it >> should be good enough for most running code on the Internet. > > You obviously have not been in enough meetings in which > proposals were put forth, by political types with the best of > intentions, for regulations to improve the Internet... > regulations that would work really well if the speed of light > were adjusted upward by 10% or so and/or could be dialed up and > back by a bit to match regulatory convenience. :-( > > What was that about a free lunch? Yes. A line I heard recently (from someone else whom I think is on this list) is that when you tell a politician that something violates the laws of physics, that statement is taken as a negotiating position. --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf