• the best network delivers bits in the largest volumes at the fastest speeds.  In addition, the best network is the most open to new communications services; it closes off the fewest futures and elicits the most innovation.

• Even without high speed connectivity, the Internet Protocol has been a powerful source of innovation. As the Internet has assumed economic importance there have been calls to alter the Internet Protocol, e.g., to increase security or strengthen copyright protection. In virtually every case, such concerns can be satisfied at the edge of the network or by adding more bandwidth to the network. The Internet Protocol itself must remain simple, stupid and best.

• The perfect network is perfectly plain, and perfectly extensible.  That means it is also the perfect capital repellant, [which] implies a guaranteed loss to network operators, but a boon to the services on the 'ends'."

• The best network is the hardest one to make money running.

  1:26:15 PM    

Jon Udell: For a while now I've been sending out RSS channels with things like <pubDate>, <blurb>, and <fullitem>. Nobody's complained, so apparently it's not breaking any existing aggregator.  I really would like to see the day where compatibility to the spec was as important as "works with the current version of the software provided by the spec author".  This reason why this strikes such a strong cord with me is that as a contributor to a SOAP toolkit, I don't want SOAP to be defined in this way.

Meanwhile, here is the perspective of an author of another aggregator.

FYI: The RSS 1.0 specification was released on 2000-12-06.

  12:39:36 AM