One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.