[8661] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
NAP philosophy & IP technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yakov@watson.ibm.com)
Tue Nov 30 08:02:47 1993
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 08:01:15 EST
From: yakov@watson.ibm.com
To: fair@apple.com, com-priv@psi.com
Ref: Your note of Tue, 30 Nov 93 03:43:41 -0800
Eric,
>The technology really wants one and only one backbone for the Internet.
Let me just point out that the Internet covers more than 100 countries
(according to one of the recent counts). I doubt the feasibility of
"one and only one backbone" that covers more than 100 countries.
Yakov Rekhter
