[ih] Preparing for the splinternet

[Hesham ElBakoury]

What I noticed is that different people have different understanding or
definition of the limited domain.

Hesham

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 12:00 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 13-Mar-22 05:30, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> > On 3/12/2022 8:20 AM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
> >>
> >> Connectivity & Interoperability are what make the Internet useful - and
> >> we've been going backwards since the day we opened the Internet to the
> >> public.
> >
> > That seems an overly-constrained assessment.  A casual view of the
> > activities prior to going public could reasonable produce the view that
> > there has been increasing entropy from the start.
>
> Correct. (And yes, it is indeed the 2nd law of thermodynamics in action,
> because the network is big enough and random enough for that to apply.)
>
> Also, there are many examples of segmentation of the network for
> technical, rather than political, reasons.
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8799.html
>
>     Brian
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