[e2e] end of interest

[David P. Reed]

Saikat Guha wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Joe Touch <touch at isi.edu> wrote:
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>>  http://www.isi.edu/touch/internet-rights/
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> Interesting; virtually all "clean-slate" architectures would violate
> the letter of these requirements, but perhaps not the spirit.
>
>   
Perhaps not surprising at all - one point of "clean slate" as a research 
agenda was to consider alternatives to the Internet's design principles!

I'm personally really uncomfortable about confusing research agendas 
with ideas such as "rights", "requirements", and "spirit".  The latter 
terms seem to be about the Law, Product Engineering, and Law/Religion 
respectively.

Research (I agree with John Day on this!) is about formulating questions 
and answering them.