[904] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: internet consumer reports on state-wide IP networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Grimm)
Wed Jul 3 19:05:04 1991
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 15:47:11 PDT
From: Steven.Grimm@Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
>Absolutely right! I find it almost impossible to use the phone system
>because the carriers refuse to tell me how they are routing my
>phone calls.
That's not what people (well, I, at least) mean by network maps. I
don't care if my packets have to go around the world eight times to get
to point B, but if I don't know where point B is, I'm not going to send
any packets in the first place. For instance, can you name an archive
site for comp.sources.3b1 off the top of your head? As a new Internet
user, would you know by instinct where to look to find that
information? Probably not (and if so, just replace that example with
something else.) The point isn't to have a physical map of the
infrastructure -- after all, once that's installed and working, it
should be invisible to end-users. The point is to compile a list of
what's where on the net, so that people can get to all the wonderful
resources that are out there.
-Steve
