[ih] Internet Principle of Levelness

[Vint Cerf via Internet-history]

Bob pioneered the idea that networks should be more or less independent but
joined by gateways and generally transparent to the hosts on an end-to-end
basis. It's possible that Louis had a similar view.

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On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 2:25 PM Alex McKenzie via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>  I think that for the "principle of levelness", as for so much else about
> the Internet, credit belongs most strongly to Louis Pouzin.  For Louis, the
> biggest fear of walled gardens was the strength of the European PTTs.  I
> remember many talks he gave stating that, if they were allowed, they would
> allocate to themselves the right to all the intelligence in any network,
> rather than simply the carriage of bits.  Louis worked tirelessly for
> internet design that allowed multiple players.
> Cheers,Alex
>
>     On Saturday, November 9, 2019, 2:10:53 PM EST, Jack Haverty via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>  I don't know whether Bob created that Internet Principle of Levelness or
> if it came earlier, but he's the one who got me on board.  That led to
> EGP as a key new element of the Internet architecture as a first tool to
> enable multi-vendor implementation.
>
>    <snip>
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