Internet II is coming...

Sean Doran smd at cesium.clock.org
Tue Oct 8 23:14:02 UTC 1996


Come on, Vadim, this is a great idea.  They should build this
cheaper faster better network to be used exclusively for meritorious
traffic because it's in the national interests of the USA.

Moreover, the the members of the Internet II consortium (hi University
MIS types and management!) and any governmental funding body involved
should mandate that any meritorious traffic use IPv6 *only* and set an
end-to-end IPv6 option to indicate which traffic should go across
Internet II and which should go across whatever IPv6 Internet exists
as provided by Evil Commercial Interests at the ridiculously high
prices which are being charged universities and research labs.

Moreover, they should also mandate that Internet II be built on
ATM, use ABR, and also use RSVP to guarantee the kinds of qualities
of service that the R&E community requires.

This would be a boon to network researchers throughout the USA.

You can bet that I (not a U.S. national, and an Evil Greedy Commercial Bastard)
also will be singing the praises of the folks from PSU, Stanford
and Chicago, and their EDUCOM ally Mike Roberts and their
representative George Strawn, the NSF's chief proponent of 
Internet II-like initiatives, because it's a fantastic idea, 
and the implication that it is either pork or a bad or unworkable 
idea is one that is beneath you, Vadim, even if the proposers
leave the other requirements out of the final solicitation, award, or both.

I mean, you can't possibly believe that the industry will solve
or even wants to solve the issues most of the folks at University
campuses have been complaining about, just as you shouldn't believe
that it can't use a push to deploy ATM, ABR, RSVP and IPv6.
A group of some thirty-four or so high-power customers is exactly
the sort of push that will finally just get this stuff done.

I can't wait until other countries jump on the bandwagon.
Maybe the EU will ressurect its similar ideas, or the G7 will
keep going with their talks, or maybe this could end up right
in the lap of the U.N.   That would be way cool.  

	Sean.





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