[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[Dave Crocker]

On 7/23/2025 6:28 PM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history wrote:
> Users care about the path their traffic takes in the network (various
> issues about ensuring certain traffic did not transit certain countries
> over the years).   Users care about performance, and before carriers sorta
> figured out how to ensure good service, we found users playing around with
> reaching into the routing layer.


This nicely exemplifies a) just how much variance there is, among the 
attributes associated with 'user', and b) just how profoundly different 
the current Internet is, from the pre-/early- commercial Internet was.

d/

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