[35659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Wed Mar 14 12:17:14 2001
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:31:17 -0800
From: Scott Francis <scott@virtualis.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:17:35PM +0800, Adrian Chadd had this to say:
> > Look: "Internet" its single, not plural that would be "Internets" there
> > are certain uniquenesses which must be maintained if you want all users on
> > "The Internet" to receive the same results no matter who's network they
> > are on.
>
> Hrm. Somewhere along the line I remember the Internet being defined
> as a bunch of networks cooperating in order to exchange information.
multiple networks, yes; but globally UNIQUE addresses _and_ globally unique domain names that map to those addresses. Otherwise, it's like if you went to buy a road map, and the street locations given on the map varied according to the company that published the map. Not knowing where you are going does no-one any good.
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