Re: Network visibility

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Since we seem to be getting pedantic...

There's "The (capital I) Internet" - which, most date to the flag day, 
and the "Public Internet" (the Internet after policies changed and 
allowed commercial & public use over the NSFnet backbone - in 1992f, as 
I recall).

Then there's the more general notion of "internetworking" - of which 
there was a considerable amount of experimental work going on, in 
parallel with TCP/IP.  And of (small i) "internets" - essentially any 
Catenet style network-of-networks.

Miles Fidelman

Mel Beckman wrote:
> Michael,
>
> “Looking into” isn’t “is” :)
>
>  -mel
>
> > On Oct 20, 2021, at 10:39 AM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >
> > On 10/20/21 8:26 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> > > Mark,
> > >
> > > As long as we’re being pedantic, January 1, 1983 is considered the 
> > > official birthday of the Internet, when TCP/IP first let different 
> > > kinds of computers on different networks talk to each other.
> > >
> > > It’s 2021, hence the Internet is /less/ than, not more than, 40 
> > > years old.  Given your mathematical skills, I put no stock in your 
> > > claim that we still can’t “buy an NMS that just works.” :)
> > Pedantically, IP is 40 years old as of last month. What you're 
> > talking about is the flag day. People including myself were looking 
> > into internet protocols well before the flag day.
> >
> > Mike


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