[49925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandy Harris)
Fri Jul 12 15:47:35 2002
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:51:34 -0400
From: Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> ... But there doesn't seem to
> >be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing
> >or signaling means on the Internet. There are a lot of words which are
> >spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell world and the
> >Internet world.
> >
> >I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA. We drive
> >on different sides of the road. Its safe until you get someone who
> >doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the
> >Atlantic. So how do you explain the rules of the Internet road to someone
> >used to driving on the telephone system?
Padlipsky's Elements of Networking Style may be the funiest technical
book ever written. It is a really vicious critique of the whole OSI
approach, written mid-80s. Some chapters are also available as RFCs,
I think 871-875.
"If you know what you're doing, three layers are enough. If not, even
17 won't save you."
