[ih] SATNET (seismic data, Norway, UK)

[Dave CROCKER]

Vint Cerf wrote:
> bob's paper will help. Larry Roberts initiated the program, Bob insisted 
> that the network be separable from ARPANET and that was part of his very 
> significant effort to develop the concept of "open" networking. 


Vint,

My understanding of the original Internet work was that openness meant 
independent technology (and administration) for the individual leaf networks, 
but that only one backbone -- now called default free zone -- could initially be 
supported.

I believe there were some manually-configured alternate backbones, but that easy 
addition of more than one had to wait until NSFNet was started and that that 
finally forced creating BGP, to support multiple backbones.

Does this view at all mesh with reality?

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net