[173178] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jul 18 20:54:21 2014
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:54:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> My cells all operate as a single cohesive system with an actual
> central control (one brain).
Nope; not really. Look up autonomic nervious system; your body makes
*wide* use of distributed processing.
> Human bodies which do not have that property suffer badly from it.
All of them, then, I guess.
> 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".
I can point to any jack that is part of it, and say it's "The Internet"
(note, please, capitalization) and be describing it accurately.
This is not an issue of engineering; it's one of nomenclature and
taxonomy.
Cheers,
-- jra
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