"Scott has a financial interest in this," says the executive. "I don't think anything he's saying is factually incorrect. He's smart enough to see that if he does come up with a good idea [he can capitalize on it]."
But Bradner responds that he did not know that the company was working in this area when he prepared his talk.
"I made the statement before I knew they were working on the problem," he said. "Serendipitously, later on I found at the Packet Design is working in this area. I certainly do not think that is a bad idea."
Solving the Crunch
But no such organization schemes have been developed or are in the pipeline, he says.
"The Internet community doesn't have any projects underway that can guarantee with any degree of [certainty] that the Internet will be running in two years," Bradner says.
He says this is because there is no way to make money making routing protocols and that it is also impossible to get everyone who runs the routers at the center of the Internet to adopt a new, better protocol once it is developed.
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