[85691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Really OT: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Sat Oct 15 21:23:58 2005
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:23:21 -1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:14:51 -1000
> > The internet is global and without boundries. The US
> > highway system is domestic with boundries.
>
> the history of the interstate bill is quite interesting.
> among other things, it killed the trains, contributed to
> the degredation of the inner cities, ... and guess which
> industries lobbied it through.
>
> and why does oahu have interstate highways, anyway?
All 56 miles of it, you mean? Be careful on that H-1, it's
over 27 miles long. Might run outta gas... ;-)
It's in the "Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960...right between
Opium Poppy Control Act and shortly before a passage headed
Purchases of Typewriters"
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_129.html. Ever
wonder why it's called the "National System of Interstate
and *Defense* Highways"? Rhetorical question...
Following NANOG methodology of late, we could make an
analogy to a MAN here. Cars are packets, malformed data
inside many packets >:-( MAJOR congestion at peak loads,
no timing on the line, etc.
scott
