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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1971)	12/16/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 2617

We have XML in our plans in the techno talk. I dropped the XML and universal document and program interface shuck as nobody understood it. It's really the biggest story in town. XML is worth billions to industry. As a matter of fact I dropped all the techno talk with our IPO as most people cannot even spell potenshal let alone project it. What most people don't have figured is what the choke and release points really are. HTML is the great enabler. The browser is king. When you see the bugs in Netscape and its lack of capabilities you just cry. No database at all. (favourites? cache?) No client server proxy. People don't get it. I am not sure Andressien even does. I know the W3C does but they cannot do much. Once it begins to be Netscape against MS the game is lost. The real killer app is email/usenet with Eudora the best for the least implementation. Again you just cry. Usenet is potentially enormously commercially viable. It is a great commons. With good mangement and more bandwith it could really go places. Unix mail is a sick puppy in need of repair. Sendmail has seen its day. We don't need tools that are that hard to administrate. It is not just hard, it is a bastard utility from hell. When bandwidth is all at least ethernet speeds and people wake up and realize that an internet server has to be a 5,000 process farm with about 622 MB speed then the net will cruise. Each node can be fibre connected with 32 byte access. (Why seven bits? trash those old boxes!) This would give each person's computer about 10 megabaud access continuous. At any one time the overall backbone has to carry about 27 terabits per second conservatively. With 256 64 gigabaud channels that is easily doable with present technology as JDS Uniphase has amply demonstrated. We had better trash the Bells and get the gov't to step in and not let them ration bandwith and charge the moon for it. Our taxes should build the backbone. Business should benefit so the bandwidth cost can be kept low. EC<:-}

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