[ih] Preparing for the splinternet

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 13-Mar-22 09:07, Hesham ElBakoury wrote:
> What I noticed is that different people have different understanding or 
definition of the limited domain.

Which is why the RFC attempts to extract the common features and requirements.

    Brian

> 
> Hesham
> 
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 12:00 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto: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 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8799.html>
> 
>          Brian
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