[447] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: tcp/ip and the Eastern Block
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent England)
Tue Mar 26 09:14:56 1991
From: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 09:13:41 -0500
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Mail from 'Brian Lloyd <brian@napa.telebit.COM>' dated Sat, 23 Mar 91 15:08:54 PST
This is all a red herring.
>
> Let us now assume that you put up a network, install a dial-up router,
> then arrange with someone in another country to advertise your network
> at their gateway. Perhaps you just get a couple of subnet addresses
> off of a "legitimate" network. Bottom line is that you end up on the
> internet (small "i" denotes the generic internet that goes beyond the
> bounds of the NSFnet backbone) and there is little that anyone can do
> about it...
>
Connecting to the small-i internet I presume means exchanging
mail via SMTP? So what? We can exchange small-i internet mail with
UUCP et al. That does not threaten the integrity of the big-i
Internet in any way, whatever that means.
Connecting to the big-i Internet means the NSFnet community,
the commercial nets (PSI, AlterNet, ...) and the rest, including the
international community. Just plugging in or dialing in doesn't get
your nets advertised anywhere in the US. Backbone and regional
routing exchanges are controlled at the network level. If you aren't
authorized, most regionals and the NSFnet backbone will not pass your
network number around. No routes, no traffic. (Well default will
usually take you ten or fifteen hops, but that is beside the point :-)
If you grab a couple of subnets from some legitimately
connected net, then those people are simply taking responsibility for
everything you do thru their network. Good luck to them.
> P.S. Dima: would you please name one of your systems "kremvax" just
> for old times sake :-).
Preferably before next Monday.
--Kent
