[ih] XEROX/PUP and Commercialization (was Re: FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?")

[Vint Cerf]

the consequence of that choice is to make equivalent a wide range of
networking technology but seems to miss picking up the heterogeneity
that the TCP/IP architecture permitted. If you try to define
"internet" by applications we may as well then conclude there is no
difference between ARPANET, X.25, DECNET, SNA, and the Internet (as
defined by use of TCP/IP suite) etc.. and yet I think it is arguable
that adaptation to heterogeneity has been an important feature of the
TCP/IP protocol suite.

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Leo Vegoda <leo at bind.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Scott Brim <scott.brim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> So it turns out that even in this group, engineering-heavy as it is,
>> "the Internet" is less defined by a technology accomplishment
>> (interworking independently administered networks) than by the
>> services end users experience (e.g. email).
>
> It doesn't seem unreasonable to define a network by what it makes
> possible instead of how it is constructed.
>
> Leo