[124766] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sun Apr 4 19:02:30 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m2aatij0ac.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:01:30 -0400
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 4, 2010, at 6:55 07PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> the visibility of the path was the only thing ordinary users had to
>> worry about.
>
> you forgot, "and thus sigs were born." they once served a purpose other
> than ego
Right, of course -- they had to show the uucp path from a well-known node.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
