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Re: What is IMS trying to achieve?
- To: carl@radio.com
- Subject: Re: What is IMS trying to achieve?
- From: rodgers@nlm.nih.gov (R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D.)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 16:39:47 +0500
Well put Carl.. Don't let the naysayers get to you. Perhaps setting some dates might take some heat off of you...
Cheerio, Rick Rodgers
> From list-mgr@ISI.EDU Tue Jan 10 16:23 EST 1995
> From: Carl Malamud <carl@radio.com>
> Subject: Re: What is IMS trying to achieve?
> To: FLAVELL@v2.ph.gla.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 15:25:32 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: mbone@ISI.EDU
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> > I am just very
> > concerned that by letting things get switched on more or less continuously
> > that don't make very effective use of it, the Mbone will become unusable
> > for anything else, at any rate on an international scope. It's been the
> > custom to carefully negotiate the slots for Mbone events of wide scope:
> > then suddenly four new channels appear, that are apparently meant
> > to operate more or less continuously, at ttl 127, without (AFAIK)
> > any detailed discussion before the event, and also contrary to the
> > collective view that VAT should be the only "radio" channel (my own
> > views on that are not the point here, so I won't press them).
> >
> > This doesn't seem to scale.
>
> Sigh. You people are making *lots* of assumptions. As I said in my
> first message today:
>
> We have no problem scaling back ttl to 16 as our main goal is
> to get this data on disk.
>
> Why are people assuming everything is permanent and bad? I've seen lots
> of useless demos go on the net and it seemed to me that there might be a
> few people who might be interested in what it takes to link satellite
> dishes and major sites such as the U.S. Capitol to the mbone. Believe me,
> that is not a simple thing to do and, barring the lack of other activities
> on the net, doesn't seem to be a bad thing to do for a while.
>
> You don't have to listen, the streams are not permanent, the ttl is
> not fixed in stone, and we're learning *lots* by conducting this
> experiment. Isn't that the purpose of a research environment?
>
> Carl
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