[AusNOG] NBN 3 year construction plan

[Mark Delany]

> do you really think Conroy & Rudd thought it through to that degree?
> not likely if you accept the press reports that they made the whole thing up in 30 mins

I'm always amused when people use this "thought it up in 30 minutes"
or "wrote it down on the back of a napkin" as some sort of slight on
the bigger idea.

The cleverness of UTF-8 is well known for being designed on the "back
of a napkin" over diner and famous scientific insights such as
evolution, gravity and the Archimedes Principle had their eureka
moments that purportedly lasted much less than 30 minutes. If I
mis-remember, the original network design of the "Internet" was drawn
up on a single scrap of paper.

All of us on this list know that the NBN "airplane" moment was
preceded by decades of wrassling a recalcitrant incumbent and a long
history of commercial disinterest in the access network. It was also
followed by years of political wrangling and detailed technical design
before being rolled out as a final product.

If anything, I am more suspicious of revolutionary change that lacks
an identifiable "eureka moment".


Mark.