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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
As for the rest of it - hey, have at it. Obviously you are positive
that the Internet works a particular way, you aren't interested in
finding out from people who actually run it how exactly it DOES
work,

Hey, *Ted!*, I've written networking code you're almost
certainl running, I've chaired several working groups in the
IETF as well as the VoIP security group in the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (where I also was a
member of the IP Camarilla in the TC SEC Lawful Intercept
Committee). Technology I developed has been standardized by
the ITU-T and PacketCable to support wiretap on cable
networks (thank you, thank you very much, I'm always pleased
to be of assistance to the community), and I work for a
company that basically prostitutes itself to its customers -
we pretty much don't build anything unless we've got
customers lined up in advance. I think we're in pretty good
shape on this one.

And, need I point out, I'm not the one who's working with
architectural models that range somewhere between faulty and
flat wrong, and that I'm not the one posting lengthy rants
based on incorrect assumptions. That is to say, I think I
have a lot better control over my argument than you've got
over yours, and if I were you I'd take my argument, sit it
down, and tell it to pull itself together. It's bordering
on the hysterical.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community