John Gilmore sez:
The rest of this is speculation and fantasy on my part.
{....} This goes along with what others have postulated. But I have to wonder -- how long will the [re]train take? One of the gripes about PEP was that retrains were slow.... This sounds slower. Further, how stable will the outcome be -- will the 'slop' in the CO's AD conversion overwhelm things? Lastly, what will the RBOC's do to stifle its use? [I take it as a given that they will object to anything that benefits subscribers and does not give them an added cut.. witness ISDN pricing, for example.] -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433