[2488] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton O'Neill)
Sat Apr 6 20:40:28 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 19:36:19 -0600 (CST)
From: "Clayton O'Neill" <coneill@premier.net>
Reply-To: "Clayton O'Neill" <coneill@premier.net>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BB23D0.4E7B6520@webster.unety.net>
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Jim Fleming wrote:
> On Saturday, April 06, 1996 8:29 AM, Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST)[SMTP:nanog@dune.silkroad.com] wrote:
[Massivce discussions on Internet structure analogies deleted]
The simple fact is that the net isn't backbone oriented anymore. The
Internet is a network, a mesh. The difference between the participants is
largely the quality, speed and position of the portion of the mesh that
they own/control. If someone wants to spend the time to quanitify this,
that's great, but I think it would be a waste of time and rather
pointless.
I think the bubbles/backbone/concentric circles analogies are all vast
simplifications. I doubt that many people here are having any problems
understanding how the net is laid out on the large scale.
As Jeff Young pointed out, the S/N ratio is getting worse, not better.
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