Verisign calls for Internet redesign, Minitel-style
When the CEO of Verisign says something as ghastly-stupid as "We have to move the complexity back into the center of the network and remove it from the edge," it's like waving a red flag before David "Stupid Network" Isenberg:How do you feel about Sclavos' remark?Link
(a) It is cluelessly megalomaniacal.
(b) It is tragically ignorant.
And I suppose I should add:
(c) It makes me feel warm and fuzzy and safe to think that some day the grown-ups might finally make the Internet a serious communications system instead of the toy that it is today. Mo< Record your vote on a Diebold voting machine and send an image of the paper receipt it produces to isen-at-isen-dot-com.
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