[2395] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Boolootian)
Fri Apr 5 13:11:20 1996
From: booloo@cats.ucsc.edu (Mark Boolootian)
To: bsimpson@morningstar.com (William Allen Simpson)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:09:02 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5201.bsimpson@morningstar.com> from "William Allen Simpson" at Apr 5, 96 03:32:57 pm
>A US Internet "backbone" is one which connects to ALL the NAP/MAEs in
>the US. Not just two. All of them.
The term is a matter of definition which is (frequently) a function of
usage. Although your description would seem to make the most sense, it
is not the generally accepted notion that exists for the term today.
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