Re: e-postage stamps, was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

Barry Shein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On March 17, 2013 at 10:18 [email protected] (Brendan Hide) wrote:
 > Hi, Chris
 > 
 > Slightly off track to the previous topic:
 > The primary issue I see with any payment-type solution is that it 
 > advocates a big change in an existing ecosystem that many vendors simply 
 > will not support.

How would you know they wouldn't support it?

How could you possibly know this?

People on this list make assertions like this all the time and I find
them as preposterous as arithmetic errors.

These discussions have a definite bias towards: Don't try to change
anything, nobody will join your parade.

I'd love to see a (voluntary of course) moratorium on such comments
unless they're backed by something plausible.

In a case like this I couldn't even imagine what that would be but hey
try me I'm open-minded.

But for example even surveys would be suspect unless highly focused
because vendors et al don't really know what they want vis a vis this
issue other than to jump on a bandwagon they heard is working for
others.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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