[ih] pretty good video on internet history

[Dave Crocker]

On 11/3/2022 11:37 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> considering that web runs via https which runs over tcp/ip or quic/udp,
> one notion of "internet" is the transport system for carrying application
> layer services. Another is that it's all internet. These interpretations
> get conflated in our discussions.

While it is heresy to utter in the midst of Transport folk, I've always 
pointed out that end2end is, ultimately, an application attribute, often 
transiting multiple transports.

www.rfc-editor.org

RFC 1775: To Be "On" the Internet <#>

🔗 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1775 
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1775>

d/

ps.  I used to think that the MUA and the mailbox were end-to-end.  Then 
I met EDI over Email.  As far as EDI was concern, Email was just 
transport...  So I guess it's turtles all the way /up/.

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net