[2415] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Apr 5 16:10:18 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 16:08:07 -0500
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 01:59 PM 4/5/96 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
>The core of the US Internet, also known as the default-free core, 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.
>
Also, it would preferable to omit 'US' from the above; the Internet
core doesn't reside solely in the United States. :-)
- paul
