[ih] principles of the internet

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Tue Jun 1 13:53:57 PDT 2010


On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Richard Bennett wrote:
>
> I don't know that economics has much to do with this, beyond the assumption
> that packet-switching is more economical for human-computer interactions than
> circuit-switching is. The Internet wasn't designed by economists.

What about Internet-scale topology / the EGP -> BGP transition /
privatization and the removal of the NSFNET backbone.

Tony.
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