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

[Brian E Carpenter]

It's definitely multi-dimemsional. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4084

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 04-Apr-20 14:57, Joseph Touch via Internet-history wrote:
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>> On Apr 3, 2020, at 6:28 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Indeed. I had posed some of this question a while back, setting what I thought were requirements for “being ON the Internet”, rather than merely “Internet content access” (e.g., behind a NAT or at a kiosk; it’s all accessing Internet content but not a full-fledged member):
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> https://www.strayalpha.com/internet-rights
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> It’s definitely more than just running IP or having an address, though.
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> Joe
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