[ih] birth of the Internet?

[Dave CROCKER]

On 10/28/2010 12:40 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Hmmm.... does that suggest that the mailbridge gateways were the embryonic
> Internet?


There's a rational argument for that, in terms of little i, but not big I. [1]

The big-I term pretty clearly relies on having a core (default-free zone) 
backbone based on TCP/IP that is used as transit between end systems.


[1] <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1775.txt>
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
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