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...instance, climb up poles and down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA-IVs, which have all the manuals on their hard-disk drives. If a worker encounters a tricky problem with a particular router, say, he can switch on his video camera and beam live images to a supervisor who can then advise corrective measures...
...senior computer executive points out that some of Bradner's noisemaking about this problem can be attributed to his position as a technical advisory board member at Packet Design, Inc., which is working on the router problem...
Bradner thinks that developing new router hardware is not going to solve the Internet's problems. An entirely new way of sending data through the center of the Internet, or routing protocol, is necessary...
Bradner argues that because of the extraordinary importance of the router problem, and because private industry has done little to address it, the government should intervene to fund university research in routing design...
...others argue that private enterprise can solve the problem by developing new router hardware and new routing protocols...