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> Everything else, like e-mail, depends on a chain of service providers and accounts to deliver and store content reliably over the network In your proposal, h
by losteric 8y ago
> Everything else, like e-mail, depends on a chain of service providers and accounts to deliver and store content reliably over the network
In your proposal, how do the packets get from point A to B?
- peterwwillis 8y agoOver the public network. Via fax that's the PSTN. Via internet that's... the internet. A phone number == A publicly routable IP address.
- rhencke 8y agoI think the point was that you still directly depend on a chain of service providers when you use the Internet. You don't free yourself of that.
- peterwwillis 8y agoOk, so, we're all agreeing on the same thing. The internet method I proposed is the same as faxing, but anything else requires more service providers, machines and steps.
- grkvlt 8y agoI think there's an assumed split between infrastructure providers (ISP, PSTN, telco) and service providers (webmail, hosting, etc.) and fax only needs the former.