History always repeats itself, all we need to do is replace a few words and we go back in time 40 years, hint: TCP/IP won, by a landslide
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Love the spirit and ethos of TCP/IP, hope that it takes off. But it is ironic that Louis Pouzin is doing more to push back on lawlessness + better data protocols and so many people are trying to funnel people away, while not admitting that TCP/IP is more limited than CYCLADES
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Isn't the idea that the potential number of protocols at least makes it more resilient?
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That's the theory but it doesn't work in practice. If any protocol gains dominance (think the majority of the internet), then it will be constrained. And then designers have a decision to make. And when one design caves...what is needed is architects with power to push innovation. Not just a protocol.