[85014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sabri Berisha)
Fri Sep 30 10:49:29 2005
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:48:54 +0200
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050930123313.GM1013@burnout.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
Hi,
> >To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to
> >work like internet
>
> You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure
> in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users
> have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on
> their phones outside their home country).
He has a point. Remember "Het Net"* as it was before they proxiet to the
real internet. Users expected the internet and after a while, they got
it.
--
Sabri
please do not throw salami pizza away
* "Het Net", translated as "The Net" was an attempt by the dutch
national telco in the late 90's to come up with a big intranet where
users could dialup, using RFC1918 addresses and visit community and
commercial sites. After a few months, proxy-support to the real internet
was added and even later it was integrated into Planet.nl, a dutch
dsl-isp.
