[2408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Apr 5 14:58:01 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 14:55:18 -0500
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Better yet, call it the 'default-free core', which is ironically what it
is already called. :-)
- paul
At 12:02 PM 4/5/96 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
>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?
>
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