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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4553)	12/8/2001 10:15:11 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

ps - for those who might be interested, the full Luminaries? thread can be found on the NANOG archives page at: merit.edu

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4553)	12/9/2001 12:40:50 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

The Internet economy doesn't defy any Economics or Physics laws. It is just that it is not that fast and easy to perforate the hard shell of big enterprises. (Oh, I know how long it took to get PCs to be used in Siemens.) Neither those giant corporations lay down and die out leaving all that market to upstarts. Have a hard look in the nature of the US corporation. (I can just recall what I learned from the Berle and Means, C. Wright Mills and J.K Galbraith that I use to read when I was young.) Look to their board of directors. It is total promiscuity. Everybody is in bed with everybody. And with all that amount of information that they have and the money that they can pull, Tonka Toys on line a.k.a Dot.Com wanted to dethrone them!!! Just see the result! And lets not forget the Big Five consulting companies. Tomorrow morning they can get from the Big Five anything they want in terms of understanding of what is going on.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4553)	12/9/2001 1:24:19 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

Still the Luminaries question: A network needs only (and only) two things: QUALITY AND CONTINUITY. QUALITY means that the signal at the other end should be the signal the input end without distortion; noise or high BER. Peter Drucker on quality: 'Quality' in a product or service is not what the suppliers put in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not 'quality' because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. That is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes 'quality'. CONTINUITY It should always be there. Since it is hard to achieve continuity because noise and distortions are of chaotic-type, we should build redundancy. And it is possible to build redundancy since the systems are cheap. So, if networks can be reduce to those two points -quality and continuity- does it need a dedicated set of Luminaries?