Statements against new.net?
Vadim Antonov
avg at kotovnik.com
Tue Mar 13 20:56:07 UTC 2001
That is based on the assumption that consistency is necessary
or desireable :) Of course, it is dear to an engineer's mind,
but the case from the sociological point of view is far from
clear-cut. In fact, way too many woes of human societies can
be (at least indirectly) attributed to the misguided attempts
to enforce consistency.
--vadim
> It said that there
> needs to be one root, regardless of how that is chosen. The notion
> that "the various operators act as they best see fit" is precisely the
> kind of thing we want to discourage, since that leads towards
> inconsistency.
>
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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