[2452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sat Apr 6 10:03:45 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 09:59:55 -0500
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 3:02 PM 4/5/96, 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.
Sounds like a fine definition... (although adding the qualification
of "functional" to "public exchange points" might be worthwhile...)
/John
