[103964] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sun Apr 20 20:44:35 2008
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <202705b0804191216m400731f8l19968bbbf167b31a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:44:14 +0900
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Not to defend AT&T or the statement regarding capacity, but...
On Apr 20, 2008, at 4:16 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
> The article is full of gaffes, just to mention one "Internet exists,
> thanks
> to the infrastructure provided by a group of mostly private
> companies".
I suspect this was referencing the difference between "public" as in
governmentally owned/operated (e.g., most of the highway system in the
US) vs. "private" that is non-governmentally owned/operated. The
Internet of today does indeed exist because of private efforts.
Regards,
-drc
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