[ih] early competition and networking

[John Day]

Then is it just the translation of the headers of the protocol?  We can leave the applications out of it.  The question is more about interworking between different networks.

John

> On Apr 14, 2024, at 21:21, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
> 
> On 4/14/2024 6:16 PM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
>> So should we say that the fundamental concept behind the internetworking
>>  based on what we use today is translation between different networks?
> No.  Translation means that the substance is altered into a different-but-roughly-equivalent form.
> 
> What we do within the IP Internet is to change a layer of envelopes, without altering the substance.
> 
> Translation is the sort of thing done when gatewaying, such as between Internet email and X.400.  The entire structure of the mail -- and potential some of its actual data -- are altered.
> 
> d/
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