[e2e] Skype and congestion collapse.

Cannara cannara at attglobal.net
Mon Mar 7 15:54:26 PST 2005


You mean the IETF & other bureaucracies didn't invent the most used apps on
the Inet?!  :]

Alex

George Michaelson wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I should be proud of it, but I recall both verbal and some
> written advice to my masters in the University of Queensland about the
> implications of this stupid WWW stuff, and how hard it was to fit into a
> proper, authorized publishing model. Your basic 'another bad idea' message.
> 
> It was quite clear within a short period of time how badly I (and others in
> computer centres) had mis-judged what real-users, departments, academics
> wanted from IT, and how wonderfully liberating the web was for them,
> precisely because it bypassed all that bureaucratic crap people like me
> wanted to foist on them.
> 
> -George


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