[ih] 'internet' and "Internet"

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/7/2023 6:14 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> But I don't know what is "practice" today.   Do corporations still 
> have their own private internets?   Or have they actually all migrated 
> to the Internet and somehow addressed all of the security concerns?

I suggest a simple basis for answering this:

 1. Posit 'global' operational semantics.  Ports, DNS, etc.
 2. If a network constrains or alters that semantic, it is an Internet,
    but is not (fully) part of /the/ Internet.

Split DNS becomes an obvious example.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
mast:@dcrocker at mastodon.social