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World of Ends by Rattle at 11:27 pm EST, Feb 10, 2004
] 1. The Internet isn't complicated ] 2. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. ] 3. The Internet is stupid. ] 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value. ] 5. All the Internet's value grows on its edges. ] 6. Money moves to the suburbs. ] 7. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends. ] 8. The Internet's three virtues: ] * a. No one owns it ] * b. Everyone can use it ] * c. Anyone can improve it ] 9. If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been ] so boneheaded about it? ] 10. Some mistakes we can stop making already
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RE: World of Ends
by Decius at 1:33 pm EST, Feb 11, 2004

Rattle wrote:

These two guys have shown clue in other contexts, but in this context there are somewhat right and somewhat very wrong.

] ] 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.

Complete translation:
If the IETF "adds value" and calls it RSVP, its good, even if it always prefers packets created by rich people to packets created by poor people.
If anyone who was ever associated with a phone company "adds value" its bad, even if it trys to honestly prefer packets that actually have a technical reason to be delivered rapidly.

This is because we are so pissed off at the RBOCs for their monopolistic practices that we've let the whole thing devolve into an identity based dick waving competition and are completely blind to right and wrong and now see only us and them.