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5. Concluding Observations
Pages 13-16

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... When contemplating launching a new agenda along these lines it is also worth noting, as workshop participants did repeatedly during the course of the workshop, that in the past, the networking research community made attempts at broad new research initiatives, some of which failed at various levels and others of which succeeded beyond expectations. There is little systematic process for learning from these attempts, however.
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... Documenting negative results will help avoid wasted effort (the reinvention of faulty wheels)
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... Appendixes
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