[5161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Thu Oct 10 06:52:43 1996
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 06:25:04 -0400
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
From: swolff@cisco.com (Stephen Wolff)
Cc: mathis@psc.edu, nanog@merit.edu
>The fiber infrastructure and the multiplexer infrastructure are good enough
>to support both Internet and Internet II. What the Internet lacks for
>Internet II today is IP tunnels with QoS. So I think that one IP
>infrastructure could be good enough for both and will be some day. This I
>believe. :-)
It **is** one IP infrastructure. The difference between a corporate
intranet and the academic version - I-II - is the stringency of AUP
observance and enforcement.
>BTW, is someone going to build traffic monitors and diagnostic tools into
>the Internet II infrastructure? Any new inter-domain routing protocols?
>Source demand routing? QoS? Or are the universities satisfied with just more
>bandwidth?
One reason for any vendor to participate is to try such things in the
fiercely critical yet basically friendly academic community.
-s
Stephen Wolff Business Development
ciscoSystems 202 337 1213
