[2406] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Browning)
Fri Apr 5 14:28:59 1996
From: Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:23:35 -0800
From: Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael@memra.com]
>
>On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:
>
>> Bill sez: A US Internet "backbone" is one which connects to ALL the
>> NAP/MAEs in the US. Not just two. All of them.
>
>Why not just start calling it the Internet "core". The core of the US
>Internet no longer follows a backbone topology. The core is composed of
>the major NSP's who operate national backbones providing national transit
>and who interconnect at all or most of the public exchange points.
>
>Make sense?
Yes, as does much of what you say... :)
--
Jim Browning
