[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[Miles Fidelman]

> Jack Haverty wrote:
>> What I was referencing was a non-technical design decision -- the notion
>> that there shouldn't be any single person, corporation, or organization
>> "managing the network".   The ARPANET, and IIRC all other networks of
>> the day, were under a single organization's control.
Really?  NASA SPAN, DOEnet, then CSnet, and then the Supercomputer 
Center Networks, and the NSFnet regionals & Backbone?
>
> 	


-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown