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----- Original Message -----
From: "Moore, James" <jmoore@geopartners.com>
To: <openeconomies@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: [OpenEconomies] A "must read" forward: Trans-Pacific Tour, part
two -- SMART Letter #81


> Happy New Year!
>
> David Isenberg continues to inspire!  Consider "New Zealand's Distance
> Problem", below.
>
> For our friends in Africa, the parallels are striking:  Ghana's distance
> problem, Senegal's, Kenya's, and especially South Africa's physical
distance
> problem are not going to go away.  The antidote to physical distance is
> connecting by telecommunications--voice, internet, voice over internet.
> Undersea fiber optic cables link the continents, and can easily carry the
> traffic.
>
> Tragically, the landing points for these marine cables are almost
completely
> controlled by local monopoly carriers, who in turn let capacity sit idle
in
> order to maintain high overseas connection prices.   This is an economic
and
> social crime against our common future.  The landing points for marine
fiber
> optic cables are as important to social and economic development as deep
> water ports (e.g. Durban in South Africa) are for trade in physical goods,
> or international airports are for social interaction.
>
> Marine cables, open VSATS, WIFI!  Here's wishing openness continues to
> expand in the New Year.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David S. Isenberg [mailto:isen@isen.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: jmoore@cyber.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Trans-Pacific Tour, part two -- SMART Letter #81
>
> To: jmoore@cyber.law.harvard.edu
> !@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>            SMART Letter #81 -- December 31, 2002
>             Copyright 2002 by David S. Isenberg
>           isen.com - "total information ignorance"
>     isen@isen.com -- http://isen.com/ -- 1-888-isen-com
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> !@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()
>
> CONTENTS
> >  New Zealand's Distance Problem
> >  My Remarkable Day in Wellington
> >  Supernova!  Most Blogged Conference Ever
>    with excerpts from blogs by:
>   + Cory Doctorow
>   + Stuart Henshall
>   + Michael Sippey
>   + Ross Mayfield
>   + David Weinberger
>   + Doc Searls
>   + Mitch Ratcliffe
> >  Quote of Note: Mark Crispin Miller on Bush 'not a moron'
> >  Smart Remarks from SMART People
>   + Ken Katashiba on Japanese Kids' Bedrooms
>   + Daniel J. Isenberg on Japanese Cable Modem Customers
> >  If it's Funny, it Must be True, by Scatt Oddams
> >  Conference on my Calendar
> >  Copyright Notice, Administrivia
> -------
>
> NEW ZEALAND'S DISTANCE PROBLEM, by David S. Isenberg
>
> New Zealand has a problem -- distance.  It is so far from
> the planet's hubs of commerce that distance is New Zealand's
> biggest barrier to participation in the global economy.
> For this problem, New Zealand self-medicates with jet travel
> and telecommunications.
>
> New Zealand's joins the world economy mostly through
> tourism (growing at 15% per year) and perishable exports
> like dairy products and seafood.  New Zealand's Fronterra
> is the largest dairy coop in the world, and a major force
> in the Kiwi economy.  Both tourism and perishable exports
> depend on jet travel for their very existence.
>
> New Zealand's distance problem could get a lot worse.  It
> is all but certain that planetary oil production will peak
> in late 2003 or perhaps early 2004, and, "nothing plausible
> could postpone the peak until 2009," according to Shell
> geologist and Princeton Professor Kenneth Deffeyes in his
> book _Hubbert's Peak_ (Princeton, 2001).  Deffeyes pumped
> data on actual oil discoveries to derive well-honed vectors
> to project the future of oil production.  [I wrote about
> Hubbert's Peak in SMART Letter #66 ( see
> http://tinyurl.com/3tys) -- David I]
>
> In contrast, demand for oil shows no sign of peaking.
> Consider: as China's 1.2 billion people start to gain some
> disposable income, some proportion of them (is 10% a fair
> guess for the next decade?) will acquire automobiles and
> air conditioners.  The growth of the Western world's oil
> appetite shows no sign of slacking either.
>
> I heard Professor Deffeyes speak at an oil investment
> conference last September 26.  He was wise and charming,
> but not optimistic.  He reported that recent works
> extending the Hubbert's Peak hypothesis to natural gas
> production are "potentially even more scary" than his
> original work.
>
> What does all this have to do with New Zealand?  Answer:
> Jet travel, unique among the heavy energy apps, needs oil-
> based fuel.  Professor Deffeyes spent much of his September
> 26 talk considering energy-intensive applications like
> heating, auto travel and electricity generation, and he
> concluded that substitute energy sources like gas, coal,
> nuclear power and greener sources could be developed.
>
> Deffeyes held out one exception -- air travel.  Jet planes
> demand high energy densities that only petroleum-based
> fuels provide.  As oil production peaks and demand
> continues to surge, Deffeyes concludes that air
> transportation will be the hardest-hit sector of the energy
> economy.
>
> If Deffeyes is right, New Zealand's distance problem could
> turn raw and ugly before the end of the decade.
>
> In telecom, on the other hand, distance **is** dead --
> except for New Zealand's network.  When I was in New
> Zealand last month, I had half an hour with Paul Swain, New
> Zealand's Minister of Communications and Transportation.  I
> suggested that he blast open the bottlenecks between the
> New Zealand economy and Southern Cross.  Southern Cross is
> the undersea cable to the U.S., Australia and Asia that
> could provide 11.5 continuous kilobits every second of
> every day to every one of New Zealand's 3.75 million
> people.  Access to that cable, half owned by incumbent New
> Zealand Telecom, is not readily available to entities that
> might benefit.  Most of its 40 Gbit capacity lies idle,
> unconnected, unused, thanks to Telecom New Zealand's
> scarcity tactics.
>
> New Zealand needs to kill the last vestiges of distance (a)
> for economic growth in any scenario and (b) to hedge
> against the economic catastrophe scenario that a severe,
> prolonged oil crisis would bring.
> -------
>
> MY REMARKABLE DAY IN WELLINGTON by David S. Isenberg
>
> I arrived in Wellington, New Zealand fifteen minutes before
> November 29 began.  Prashanta Mukherjee, my fellow
> Prosultant(sm -- Prosultant is a service mark of isen.com,
> LLC) had arranged a driver to take me to my hotel.  He was
> there, "suited and booted," as Prashanta had promised.
>
> If you ever need something done proactively, professionally
> and (yes!) provocatively in New Zealand, I suggest that you
> contact Prashanta Mukherjee first.  With nothing up front
> but my assent, he created my remarkable day from start to
> finish, scared up money, coordinated schedules, arranged
> press, lobbied the right politicians, aligned the geek
> community and made sure that everything flowed together in
> one swift stream.  What an organizer!  [See his stuff at
> http://www.prashanta.com.]
>
> I was in bed by 1:00 AM.  My first appointment was at 6:20;
> a TV interview with the national morning business show.
> There is only one morning business show on Kiwi TV -- New
> Zealand is small.
>
> I hate TV interviews.  (Even blogging is too spontaneous
> for this re-re-revisionist.)  But this interview felt good.
> The anchorman asked just the right level of question.  I
> could lean into each answer.  My 2.5 minute message was
> that telcos were buggy whip boys.
>
> The sponsor of the show is TelstraClear, New Zealand's
> second carrier.  One of the Kiwi SMART People who saw the
> interview wrote:
>   "I thought that Michael [the anchorman] cut the interview
>    very short, probably because you scared him telling him
>    that broadcast television was going to disappear . . .
>    my guess is it was all a bit too radical for him."
>
> The next stop was the eVision Center, a Wellington
> storefront that serves as a geographical locus for
> cyberspace activities.  The 25 well-connected folks who
> showed up for this "Interactive Breakfast" were my kind of
> people.
>
> Then Prashanta took me to the Honorable Paul Swain, New
> Zealand's (elected, not appointed) Minister of Transport,
> Information Technology and Communications.  We entered the
> Beehive, the inner sanctum of Kiwi government, simply by
> announcing ourselves at the front desk.  Swain listened
> attentively.  I delivered the message; blow the bottlenecks
> open, connect New Zealand's info economy to the world's.
> He heard.
>
> Our next stop was the prime motive for my New Zealand visit
> -- CityLink's launch of its new 802.11 hotspot service,
> called CafeNet.  CityLink is a little company with one
> modest ambition -- to give Wellington the competitive
> advantage of plain stupid connectivity.  CityLink started
> in 1995 on a small grant from the City Council.  Its first
> network was fiber hung on the city's trolley stanchions.
> Today it is still a small company with 13 owners, 500
> customers and a handful of employees.
>
> CityLink's entry-level fiber connectivity starts at about
> NZ$250 per month for 10 Mbit/s symmetrical Ethernet
> service.  (The Kiwi dollar is worth US$0.50.)  This covers
> one GByte of throughput a month; heavier users pay more.
> This is in large part because CityLink's cost of connecting
> to the rest of the world is high, thanks to Telecom New
> Zealand's heavy hand on Southern Cross.  The full CityLink
> product line is at http://tinyurl.com/3ur4, and there's a
> good story about CityLink's history and stupid, open
> philosophy at http://tinyurl.com/3ux4.
>
> The CafeNet launch was in a big white tent next to the
> Wellington Library.  The plan is for CafeNet to install
> hotspots around town (I used two of them, at the library
> and my hotel) and charge NZ$20 for 120 MB.  I met CityLink
> CEO Neil DeWit and CafeNet's prime mover, Hamish MacEwan.
> I spoke to the crowd.  I answered reporters' questions.  I
> sat for a newspaper photographer.  I gave a dyspraxic radio
> interview in the library anteroom while a baby bawled in
> the background.  Every so often Prashanta would introduce
> me to an Important Person.  I found a moment to log onto
> CafeNet too.
>
> Lunch was a swirl, then Prashanta's delegation descended
> upon New Zealand's (appointed, not elected)
> Telecommunications Commissioner, Douglas Webb, and his
> staff.  I did not grasp his organizational relationship to
> Swain -- the Telecommunications Commissioner is part of the
> Commerce Commission, which seems unrelated to the Ministry
> of Communications.  [Prashanta writes, "The Commerce
> Commission is the "competition watch dog" of New Zealand.
> It is financially responsible to the Minister of Commerce
> but independent, i.e. not a government policy
> implementation organization. Their job is to ensure that
> fair trade and competition are alive and well.]
>
> We talked with Webb and his team for over an hour.  I
> presented the basic Stupid idea.  Webb's staff raised all
> the standard telco FUD issues. (FUD == Fear, Uncertainty &
> Doubt, as in, "what if Telecom NZ can't afford to invest in
> its network anymore," "what if you're having a heart
> attack" (and [implied] the Internet is unreliable),"
> "whadaya mean 'unmanaged,'" and stuff like that.)  I don't
> know if we made any progress with Webb and his team --
> after all, Webb and company spend most of their time
> listening to Telecom NZ define the issues.
>
> Commissioner Webb asked me what I would do if I were in
> charge -- I told him that, "If I had a country," I'd go for
> structural separation of rights-of-way and maybe facilities
> from services and applications.  The tricky issue is where
> that separation occurs.  Should the layer 0-1 entity offer
> just access to conduits and poles?  Or should it sell dark
> fiber?  Or should it sell wavelengths?  Or managed
> connectivity?  Where should common carrier obligations end
> and competition begin?  This would be a great topic for an
> Econ Ph.D. thesis.
>
> Next, Prashanta walked me to a meeting with Blair McRae,
> the CEO of the Wellington Regional Economic Development
> Agency (which was the other sponsor of my visit).  McRae
> served up some wine, cheese and a surprise.  The surprise
> was that Her Worship, Kerry Prendergast, Mayor of
> Wellington arrived and appointed me Inaugural Digital
> Ambassador of Wellington.  What this means is that I have a
> piece of paper that says so.  And I have an Official
> Position from which to tell you that Wellington's network
> is really stupid, and that thanks to a few dedicated,
> patient, tenacious and visionary individuals, Wellington is
> becoming one of the smartest, most info-enabled cities on
> the planet.
>
> Mercifully, dinner was the last item on the agenda.  I
> vaguely remember the delightful New Zealand wine, the
> convivial company (including long-time SMART Person Roger
> DeSalis, who has started FX, a VoIP company that runs on
> top of CityLink's network), and my strenuous efforts to
> keep from falling face first into my excellent rack of New
> Zealand lamb.  Neil DeWit recognized my exhaustion and
> graciously drove me home early.  Thus ended my remarkable
> day in Wellington.
>
> As I traveled around New Zealand in the ensuing days, I
> learned that United Networks, the fiber Municipal Area
> Networking company that hosted my visit in early 2001 had
> largely failed, thanks to overly high pricing (and other
> mistakes?), and that United Utilities, its parent, had been
> sold.  One lesson here is that fiber alone is not enough;
> there must also be a grasp of the larger value proposition.
> Further, even that grasp might not be enough -- 90% of all
> restaurants fail in their first year even though we
> understand the restaurant business model thoroughly.
>
> In addition, I learned that two U.S. incumbents, Ameritech
> (now SBC) and Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), which had been
> investors in Telecom NZ, had pulled out over the last year
> or so, making hundreds of millions of dollars in stock
> appreciation.  Or, as the Kiwis see it, they drained
> hundreds of millions of dollars from from the Kiwi economy.
> If we do nothing, "clever" telco investments like these
> will destroy telephony from within.
>
> Perhaps, it seemed, my visit had had an impact.  Several
> people remembered the media swirl that Prashanta had
> stirred up.  One day, my hitchhiker's eyes got wide when my
> interview came on my rent-a-car's radio.  Another time, a
> woman said that she had seen on TV about the impending
> demise of the telcos -- and then looked at me startled and
> exclaimed, "You said that!"  Others I met had read about my
> stupid ideas in the papers or heard me on the radio.
> Perhaps New Zealand is small enough, educated enough and
> open enough to be the first nation in the world to
> transcend telephony.
>
> Some media links from my NZ visit:
> Good article on the CityLink CafeNet launch:
>    http://www.isen.com/press/NZListenerDec2002.pdf
> Pretty good New Zealand Herald article:
>    http://tinyurl.com/35xv
> Embarrassingly dysfluent interview on Radio NZ:
>    http://tinyurl.com/3uy6
> My appointment as Digital Ambassador (with some words I'd
> never use in polite company and a few inaccuracies too):
>    http://tinyurl.com/3xln
> -------
>
> SUPERNOVA!  MOST BLOGGED CONFERENCE EVER
>
> Kevin Werbach put on a great conference in Palo Alto.  He
> pulled together a delightful assortment of people,
> including a plurality of Earth's most famous Web loggers,
> for Supernova2002.  When Kevin said, "Welcome to
> Supernova," the other sound was keyboards clicking like
> hail on a well-insulated roof as two dozen bloggers tucked
> in behind their laptops.  It was a nodal moment.  It made
> the hair on my arms stand up.
>
> I used my Supernova talk to pull together many of the
> themes I cover piecemeal in The SMART Letter.  Here I seize
> the opportunity to present coverage of my talk from seven
> blogs.
>
> The rest of the meeting was great, too, but having read
> many, many other accounts, I'm too intimidated, and way too
> late, to add anything new.  See blogs from Dave W and David
> W and Doc and Dan and Sippey and Sifrey and meg and Mitch
> and Kevin and Glenn and . . . if you've never entered the
> blogiverse before you might find yourself tumbling down
> Wonderland's tunnel . . .
> ---
>
> Cory Doctorow [http://tinyurl.com/3xiw] wrote:
>
>   "David Isenberg just gave an amazing, stirring address
>    on the Stupid Network at Supernova. My notes:
>
>   "Sure you can do Internet on the phone network -- you can
>    do Internet on smoke signals, too. Its yesterday's
>    news. The best network is a stupid network, which
>    supplies simple connections, but no 'services.' Instead,
>    'services' are created by smart, network-enabled
>    products, designed for any networked application. Bring
>    them home and plug them in.
>
>   "[He holds up a slim cable containing 864 fibers that can
>    be run down your street or under it.] Two of these
>    fibers could handle the peak load of the entire United
>    States.  You can light this up at a gigabit, just for
>    your home -- that's the capacity of a telephone office
>    of a city of 100,000 people. In two or three years, you
>    can have an entire telephone company's worth of
>    bandwidth in your house for $2,000.
>
>   "The phone companies value artificial scarcity. The most
>    malleable of all laws (Moore's Law, Gilder's Law) is
>    accounting law -- depreciation (as we saw with Enron).
>    Bean counters assume the net will be replaced in five
>    years -- but with the rate of growth in Gilder's Law,
>    it's like replacing the paperboy's bicycle with a
>    rocket-ship. The paper-boy can't deliver papers on a
>    rocket-ship. [Cory: yay! obsolete paper-boys!]
>
>   "Engineering effort doesn't scale like Moore or Gilder --
>    one engineer can only do one engineer's worth of work.
>    If we increase the amount of engineering required for
>    our rocket-ship net, we'll run out of engineers. So keep
>    it simple, stupid. All the smarts in the network should
>    be at the ends, in PCs or devices, not in routers or
>    other network pieces.
>
>   "Internetworking shifts control and value-creation from
>    the network owner to the end-user. A conventional
>    telephone call touches every node in every network, and
>    every node's owner can add features -- call waiting,
>    etc. The Internet's job is to ignore network-specific
>    differences, like call waiting. Call-waiting is defined
>    at the end-points between both parties on the
>    conversation.
>
>   "Networks that add cool features break the stupidity
>    principle.
>
>   "The Internet makes telephony into just another
>    application. Traditionally, you need telephone wires,
>    poles, network and service. You pay for the service,
>    though, not all the hardware. The telephone company does
>    business this way, it's the only way they know.
>
>   "In a stupid network, telephony is just an application.
>    The telcos know how to string wires and put up poles,
>    but not how to make money on 'em. That's why all the
>    winning apps weren't built by telcos: email, ecommerce,
>    the Web, blogging, etc.
>
>   "Most of the important future communications applications
>    haven't been discovered yet. This is the green-screen,
>    command-line era of telephony.
>
>   "In the telco world, they charge money for providing this
>    voice application and spend the money to support the
>    network and physical plant.
>
>   "In the stupid network, the physical layer is designed
>    for anything digital. The network layer is Internet
>    protocol. The applications are anything: data, video,
>    voice, whatever.
>
>   "MSFT may have a monopoly, but it doesn't have the poles-
>    and-wires monopolistic advantage that the telcos have.
>    The potential for a marketplace in stupidnet
>    applications exists.
>
>   "So in the stupidnet world, who pays for the physical
>    layer: poles, wires and so on? The wires are usually an
>    expense subsidized by the voice service. When voice is
>    free, who will keep putting poles up?
>
>   "The telco won't make the transition. They're too
>    addicted to their business. The cable-companies may have
>    a better shot, but they're addicted to video
>    entertainment business. They don't want to put in a net
>    that will let anyone get any video signal they want from
>    anywhere. Municipalities: there are 125 cities in the US
>    that are actively investigating their own fiber nets.
>    Utilities have wire and pipes in our homes. New kinds of
>    companies may do it. Customers and corporations own
>    their own networks.
>
>   "Stupidnet has its own values: First Amendment,
>    decentralization, not any-color-you-like-so-long-as-its-
>    black.
>
>   "Remember: Goliath lost! It takes smart people to build
>    the stupid network!"
> ---
>
> Stuart Henshall [http://tinyurl.com/3xix], a New Zealander,
> wrote:
>
>   "[David has] just returned from New Zealand where he was
>    working with CityLink in Wellington, a small broadband
>    wireless provider . . . I'm looking forward to his
>    update 'Why Stupid is Still Smart'. Many moons ago we
>    had a great conversation around his paper 'Stupid
>    Networks'. My argument then as it would be now; Can't we
>    apply this same logic to companies?  'Stupid Companies
>    are really Smart'.
> [The Stupid Company is like the 'Soccer Ball' hypothesis
> advanced by Francis McInerney of North River Ventures.'  I
> take no credit -- David I]
>
>   "This turned out to be one of the best talks of the day
>    . . . David had his screensaver playing pictures of NZ
>    as we walked in after lunch. Finally we were looking at
>    something tangible."
> ---
>
> Michael Sippey, the official conference blogger,
> [http://tinyurl.com/3xj3] wrote
>
>   "David begins with a reality check: infrastructure is the
>    physical stuff. Conduit in the ground is infrastructure.
>    Telephone poles are infrastructure.
>
>   " . . . 'Have some humility and take some functionality
>    out of the middle of the network so you don't have to do
>    forklift upgrades later.' (Lessig devotes much of his
>    book _The Future of Ideas_ to the end-to-end principle.)
>
>   "The big question: what's the business and operating
>    model for the physical layer? Who builds and runs the
>    new network? The telephone company? The cable company?
>    Municipalities? Utilities? New kinds of companies?
>    Customers themselves?"
>
>   "SIP: what HTTP did for documents, SIP will do for
>    communications. The intelligent network (today's phone
>    network) gives way to a stupid network.
>
>   "'Most of the important communications applications
>    haven't been discovered yet.' Jonathan Rosenberg, co-
>    creator of SIP"
> ---
>
> Ross Mayfield [http://tinyurl.com/3xj9] wrote:
>
>   "Kevin [Werbach]: 'In my dreams I would come up with a
>    simple idea like David's that is so powerful and
>    everyone gets.'
>
>   "[David Isenberg:]  I'm shocked [that we] have never
>    gotten below layer 7 in the discussion today and . . .
>    still [people] call it infrastructure.  That's not
>    infrastructure.  Infrastructure [conduits, poles,
>    rights of    way, etc., are] important and uncertain.
>
>   "Q&A:  I posed the utility model question and he says I'm
>    right, but there are [other] alternative[s besides
>    the utility model] (he is right too)."
> ---
>
> David Weinberger [http://tinyurl.com/3xjj] wrote:
>
>   "David Isenberg is just back (two nights ago) from
>    several weeks in Japan, Australia and New Zealand so
>    he's full of wide-eyed news of a world where broadband
>    flows like milk and is as sweet as honey. Now he's
>    talking about a vanilla 802.11b system that provides
>    better quality sound than 'real' telephones."
>
>   "'What HTTP did for documents, SIP (Session Initiation
>    Protocol) will do for communications.'
>
>   "'The best network is a stupid network.' That is, the
>    best network provides nothing but connection. The
>    services are provided by applications running on the
>    network. (David and I wrote about this at The Paradox of
>    the Best Network. All content came from David.) 'Each of
>    us in 2-3 years can have the bandwidth of a telephone
>    company for a few thousand bucks. But the telephone
>    companies believe in scarcity and are forcing it on us.'
>
>   "The End-to-End principle, which is the same as The
>    Stupid Network, says that you should keep the network
>    simple because that preserves your options for
>    innovating on its edges. Phone companies like to add
>    value to [the middle of] their networks, for competitive
>    reasons, which makes their networks smart. That's fine
>    for telephone calls, but the Internet is not
>    specifically for phone calls or for anything else.
>
>   "There are, he notes, important political implications
>    and obstacles. But he's out of time.  Smart presentation
>    on the virtues of stupid networks. But, then, I'm
>    partial to David . . ."
> ---
>
> Doc Searls [http://tinyurl.com/3xjs] wrote:
>
>   "David wrote a famous (or infamous, depending on your
>    point of view) 1997 paper titled 'The Rise of the Stupid
>    Network.'  He was at AT&T at the time, and the paper so
>    insulted his employer that he left shortly thereafter
>    and immediately made a career of pointing out--often to
>    great effect--how stupid great networks need to be.
>
>   "'Why Stupid is Still Smart' was the title of his
>    Supernova talk, and 'Distance is dead' was his opening
>    point. He went on to explain the need to keep making the
>    End-to-End Argument first made by David Reed and others
>    in the landmark 1982 paper by the same name
>    [http://tinyurl.com/3xjr].  This argument was so
>    persuasive that it served as the conceptual blueprint
>    for the Net. Yet in spite of its success, the same
>    argument remains opaque to vast populations who aren't
>    hip to the Net's profoundly decentralized nature. This
>    list includes Congress, Hollywood and Microsoft."
> ---
>
> Mitch Ratcliffe http://tinyurl.com/3xjw wrote:
>
>   "The really important idea that David talks about, after
>    the notion of a dumb network that can be the foundation
>    of any IP-based networked application, is the Session
>    Initiation Protocol.  It will allow any device to find
>    another device and begin to communicate.
>
>   "The end-to-end principle: If you can do something at the
>    ends of the network or in the middle, do it at the ends
>    to preserve your options, because we don't know what the
>    network will be used for later. Thus, internetworking
>    shifts control from network owner to end-user of the
>    network."
> -------
>
> QUOTE OF NOTE: Mark Crispin Miller
>
>   "[U.S. President George W. Bush] has no trouble speaking
>    off the cuff when he's speaking punitively, when he's
>    talking about violence, when he's talking about revenge.
>    When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and
>    grammar are fine.  It's only when he leaps into the wild
>    blue yonder of compassion, or idealism, or altruism,
>    that he makes these hilarious mistakes."
>
> Mark Crispin Miller author of _The Bush Dyslexicon:
> Observations on a National Disorder_, quoted in "Bush
> Anything But Moronic," by Murray Whyte, Toronto Star,
> November 28, 2002.
> -------
>
> SMART REMARKS FROM SMART PEOPLE:
>
> Ken Katashiba [kkatashi@cpbd.fujitsu.com] writes:
>
>   "I disagree your comment that Japanese kids don't have
>    private rooms. I believe most of them have their private
>    room, perhaps, not as big as the one US kids would have.
>    I agree about the degree of privacy they have at home as
>    much as U.S. but there are just more fun being outsides
>    their homes since homes are not located close to
>    downtown and only way they can be in downtown is on
>    their way back home from school."
>
> Daniel J. Isenberg [dan@isen.com] writes:
>
>   "Triangle Technologies http://tinyurl.com/3yh7
>    has been predicting the broadband boom in Japan for
>    18 months. By the way, you missed the fact that there
>    are around 1.9 million cable modems in Japan, with an
>    annual growth of about 50% compared with 2001.  (Note
>    that CATV penetration is over 20% in Japan.)  Here's an
>    English-friendly site with the latest numbers:
>    http://tinyurl.com/3xs2.";
>
> [Dan I is my brother and the CEO of Triangle Technologies.
> According to Dan's source above, in Japan in November 2002
> there are 5.1 million DSL customers, 1.9 million cable
> modem customers and 0.17 million fiber-to-the-home
> customers for a total of 7.2 million.]
> -------
>
> IF IT'S FUNNY IT MUST BE TRUE, by Scatt Oddams.
>
> David,
> The world's baddest actors in the world's worst movie:
> http://tinyurl.com/3wb3.  Don't worry about a sequel.
> Gotta go,
> Scatt
> -------
>
> CONFERENCE ON MY CALENDAR
>
> February 4, 2003, Santa Barbara CA.  Center for
> Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management (CEEM) at UC
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>
> March 31 through April 3, 2003, San Jose CA.  VON.  I have
> a general session TBD on April 1 that I promise will be
> interesting.  April 1 is one of my favorite holidays.  You
> will believe EVERYTHING my panel presents.
> http://www.von.com
>
> April 22-25, 2003, Santa Clara CA.  O'Reilly Emerging
> Technology Conference.  Undefined, but it'll be something
> about why do The Stupid Network at all if you can't make
> money from it.  http://conferences.oreillynet.com
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