[173176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jul 18 19:42:50 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:34:39 -0700
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
My cells all operate as a single cohesive system with an actual central =
control (one brain).
Human bodies which do not have that property suffer badly from it.
There is no central brain managing what we call "THE internet" and my =
point isn't that INTERNETs don't exist, it's that there's no particular =
one you can point to and call it "THE internet".
Owen
On Jul 18, 2014, at 16:28 , William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> But the part that will really bend your mind is when
>> you realize that there is no such thing as
>> "THE Internet".
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> Hi Owen,
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> Your body consists of many millions of distinct biological entities
> (cells) operating cooperatively and competitively in many interesting
> ways all based on the same core "code," but I have to think you'd take
> offense if I said there was no such thing as "Owen Delong."
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> Poor Internet can't get no respect...
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> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
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> William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us
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