[ih] ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says the internet was never finished

[touch at strayalpha.com]

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> On Mar 2, 2022, at 8:22 AM, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 8:46 PM Jack Haverty wrote:
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>> One that I used in the talk was TOS, i.e., how should routers (and TCPs)
>> treat datagrams differently depending on their TOS values.
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> I actually don't think that's that important any more (or multicast either).
> TOS is only realy important in a network with resource limitations, or very
> different service levels. We don't have those any more - those limitations
> have just been engineered away.

Not all networks can be over-provisioned; DSCPs and traffic engineering are alive and well.

They’ve just been buried so low that you don’t notice them. It’s like driving on cement and claiming no more need for iron rebar.  

Taking Clarke’s Third Law a step further*, “any sufficiently useful technology fades into the background".

Joe

*”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
—
Dr. Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
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