[8696] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NAP philosophy & IP technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Fajman)
Tue Nov 30 19:36:18 1993
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@cu.nih.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 19:33:05 EST
> 1. Internet routing should be complete: everyone can send IP
> packets everywhere (forget security firewalls for the purpose
> of this discussion). Among other things, this means that I
> should be able to buy one IP network service, and get
> everywhere - I don't have to have a connection to each service
> provider, like the X.25 PDN world in the U.S.
One thing that I would like to be able to do someday that today's routing
technology seems far from being able to support is to buy two IP network
connections from different providers. I would like each one to back up
the other and to use both when both are working. As networking becomes
more and more critical, backup and redundancy will become more and more
important.
Roger Fajman Telephone: +1 301 402 4265
National Institutes of Health BITNET: RAF@NIHCU
Bethesda, Maryland, USA Internet: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV
