[ih] This has been asked before but - when & how did the us government define the Internet

[Jack Haverty]

Interesting...  By that definition, requiring a "globally unique address
space", I wonder what fraction of the thing-that-we-call-Internet is
actually part of The Internet.

E.g., I have quite a few devices in my house, all using TCP/IP, with
addresses 192.168.xx.xx, and you probably have some too.   My address
space is not globally unique, so I guess all of my stuff isn't part of
The Internet?

Similarly, back in the 90s I was involved in running a large corporate
intranet, and we used the whole IP address space to structure our
addresses inside, with only a few machines that allowed certain traffic
(Email, Web, etc.) to pass to and from the rest of The Internet.  I
suspect a lot of other organizations did the same, so they don't fit
into a globally unique address space either.

I wonder how many such situations exist today - e.g., how server farms,
end-user ISPs, etc. approach the address space issue, and if they're
really part of the unique global address space of the Internet by that
definition.

/Jack Haverty

On 4/3/20 5:19 PM, Steven G. Huter via Internet-history wrote:
> https://www.nitrd.gov/fnc/internet_res.pdf
>
> steve
>
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
>
>> I believe it was the Federal Networking Council that issued the
>> definition
>> v
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 7:43 PM Scott O. Bradner via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I recall that some part of the us government defined the Internet as
>>> interconnected networks running tcp/ip - maybe the NRC?
>>>
>>> Anyway - it would help me in a paper I’m writing to be able to
>>> reference a
>>> document where that is stated
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Scott
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