[8674] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NAP philosophy & IP technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lixia Zhang)
Tue Nov 30 14:40:25 1993
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:37:49 PST
From: Lixia Zhang <lixia@parc.xerox.com>
To: yakov@watson.ibm.com
Cc: fair@apple.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 30 Nov 1993 05:01:15 -0800
> Ref: Your note of Tue, 30 Nov 93 03:43:41 -0800
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> Eric,
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> >The technology really wants one and only one backbone for the Internet.
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> 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
Hi Yakov,
I dont seem to get your point. How many countries a network can
connect/support has to do with the topology of the backbone network,
right? (I dont think Eric meant a single spine topology, but rather a
single backbone network).
Lixia
