Re: [idn] Where to do form-folding?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 17:28 23/07/2000 -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> >General observation: If development of Internet had been constrained by
> >existing CPU resources in the past, it would not have grown to its 
> current level of importance throughout the world.
>
>Au contrair.  The development of the Internet to date HAS actually
>been constrained by past CPU resources.  This issue is present
>in many IETF standard protocols, from routing to applications,
>and has regularly been considered part of the overall environment.

or to put it another way: "rough consensus and running code" requires that 
there exist CPU resources that can run the code....

            Harald

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