[ih] early competition and networking

[John Day]

The internetworking question was the one before that:

A collection of different heterogeneous networks with potentially different technologies, which might be multi-access, different forms of relaying, etc that would be interconnected by some means.

The mail problem was much later and not the core problem.

Take care,
John

> On Apr 14, 2024, at 23:02, Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
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> On 4/14/2024 6:55 PM, John Day wrote:
>> Right.  So you believe that the solution to internetworking all networks use the same network protocol?
> Given that my graduate work was an email gateway system, between independent, heterogeneous services, no, I would not say all.  
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> However meaningful heterogeneity essentially requires losing some information, so I'd say 'preferred solution'.
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>> Should I jump to the conclusion that that was true, prior to IP being separated from TCP?
> Since I was not involved in any of that work, my response is based on comments from others.  
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> My understanding is that the design model then and now is a homogeneous service, on top a variety of heterogeneous services.  Hiding the differences by providing a common service on top of them.  That the common service was originally specified as one layer and evolved into two does not change the meta-design approach.
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