[Milsurplus] A New Concept: Virtual Spectrum

[William Donzelli]

> Waste of bandwidth?  May I ask who is paying for it?  If downloading 
> music files or listening to your favorite Internet radio station is 
> acceptable, then I don't see this as a "waste" any more than those (and 
> spam, by far the dominant component) activities, which are consuming 
> *enormous* bandwidths compared to what we are talking about.

I agree. Anyway, the truth of the matter is that there is **enormous** 
amounts of bandwidth out there, even with Bernie cooking the books. 
many gigabit/sec SONET rings are already in service, and everyone and his 
brother is getting megabit/sec rates going into their houses with cable 
modems. In a few years, multiply these numbers.

I like the idea as well, as I have many sets from the 1930s that cannot 
be used today.

As a side note (and quite opposite), some of us computer geeks in Rhode
Island worked up an IP over Morse protocol for the April Fool's RFC
contest. We lost to an RFC based on chimpanzees. Our system, however,
probably would have worked, albeit painfully slowly. The idea was that a
real PPP connection could be made, even if there was a human fist
somewhere in the stream. It is a couple of years old now, and I don't know
if it is still on the net.  Maybe I will try to dig it up. 

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org