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Thursday, July 10, 2003
Networked democracy at work 
| | Britt Blaser: Steal this Campaign. Takes off on what Jim Moore wrote last week. Reading the Kucinich and Clint Jarvis blogs, I'm reminded that what makes the Dean Phenomenon remarkable is that it's not just about Dean. He's just the guy in front of the parade. For now. This phenomenon is about networked democracy. No reason somebody else can't stand in front of the parade. |
Onward and outward
| | Having a great time at OSCon. My talk went well yesterday, I'm told. It should be up, somewhere, soon. |
| | I decided that this would be a conference where blogging, and following blogs, would take a back seat to enjoying the sessions and talking with folks. The fact that the wi-fi connectivity was unusually flaky (for an O'Reilly conference), helped. |
| | I'll be reporting on things, of course. Just not necessarily here, or now. |
| | Looking forward to flying home tonight too. Been away too long. |
Loose endings
| | Richard Bennett has some interesting shove-back on the end-to-end qualities that many believe are imbued in (or ideals of) the Net, and which World of Ends is mostly about. He raises good points that need to be argued, even if he can't resist the customary put-downs: |
| | There are a number of kludges that have been adopted in TCP to approximate a truly end-to-end capability, but none of them really make it a reality because there's not enough smarts in IP and its various kludgy cousins (ICMP, IGMP) to make this work. So freezing the architecture at this stage would be a serious mistake, which is why you never see network architects arguing for the things that Searls (a Public Relations man), Lessig (a law professor) or Dave Weinberger (a philosophy professor) want. |
| | The story of how the Internet came by its odd architecture, which it doesn't share with the much better-designed ARPANET, coherent architectures like SNA and DECNet, and extant PDNs, is a story of ambitious professors, government grants, and turf wars among contractors that's not at all a tale of the best design winning out, but more on that later. This "end-to-end" fantasy is simply historical revisionism, and we need to nip it in the bud before it does any more damage. |
| | A lot of comments follow. Worth reading. |
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