[ih] Internet History - from Community to Big Tech?

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/1/2019 12:34 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
> The name Ethernet has survived, but the networks we call Ethernets today 
> don’t share much with the Bluebook Ethernet beyond the frame format.


This highlights the basic distinction between 'interace spec' and 'wire 
spec'.

The operation over the wire can be completely different -- as current 
ethernet is compared with the coaxed version -- while remaining 
compatible at the interface.  (Netbios was another example, with the 
various versions over TCP being completely different than the 
unpublished, original Sytek version.)

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net