It certainly would be nice to have a new protocol designed to deal with the myriad problems we are seeing today but the reality is it will take a group of technology and industry leaders to design a new protocol. And it will take them years to do it. Not to mention the RIAA and MPAA will likely try to get involved which will drag things out even further. And then how fast will it be implemented? It might take another year or two for Microsoft to implement it in Internet Explorer.

Quite frankly, five years for design and implementation sounds optimistic to me which makes me think wide spread adoption of a new protocol would likely be a decade or more away.

And that's why you are getting some of the feedback you are and why it is hard to take your "advantage of a clean slate" theory seriously. It is certainly a worthy goal and your optimism is admirable but it will be very, very hard to pull it off.

In reply to Re^3: How to implement a fourth protocol by Argel
in thread How to implement a fourth protocol by Moron

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