On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:12 59PM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>
> --On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:45 -0800 james woodyatt
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> TAI has a fairly stable foundation in non-relativistic
>> physics, which experience has shown to be somewhat resistant
>> to the power of political bodies to modify at will, so it
>> should be good enough for most running code on the Internet.
>
> You obviously have not been in enough meetings in which
> proposals were put forth, by political types with the best of
> intentions, for regulations to improve the Internet...
> regulations that would work really well if the speed of light
> were adjusted upward by 10% or so and/or could be dialed up and
> back by a bit to match regulatory convenience. :-(
>
> What was that about a free lunch?
Yes. A line I heard recently (from someone else whom I think is
on this list) is that when you tell a politician that something
violates the laws of physics, that statement is taken as a negotiating
position.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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