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

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Fri Apr 3 18:46:34 PDT 2020


To me, by definition, anything that is not addressable end to end across
the Internet is not "on" the Internet. NAT or no NAT.

joly

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 9:28 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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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