I wonder how many people realize that X.25 was a direct descendant of
ARPANET, and that BB&N became a leading supplier of X.25 hardware simply
by continuing the IMP down its evolutionary path.
The dialog on Internet regulation is world-wide. The EC has an open
inquiry on it, and nations around the world are grappling with Internet
policy as they contemplate the best means of stimulating the deployment
of more capable infrastructure that will ultimately replace twisted pair
with coax and fiber and replace 2G and 3G mobile with LTE. Providing
wholesale access to the legacy twisted pair cable plant doesn't cause
fiber to magically spring up out of the Earth and connect homes together
in a seamless mesh.
Engineers have no more intrinsic insight into network policy than
economists have regarding network protocols; law professors are
generally lame on both fronts. The most interesting policy work
regarding the Internet these days comes from multi-disciplinary teams
working in academe and in the think tanks.
RB
On 9/14/2010 2:57 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On 2010-09-15 04:36, Bob Braden wrote:
On 9/14/2010 8:11 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Noel Chiappa:
I actually vaguely recall discussions about the TOS field (including
how many bits to give to each sub-field), but I can't recall very
much of the content of the discussions. If anyone cares, some of the
IENs which document the early meetings might say more.
See RFC 760, which seems remarkably up-to-date:
A few networks offer a Stream service, whereby one can achieve a
smoother service at some cost.
That might have been only a sideways acknowledgment of ST-II.
Not to mention that at the time, the great competitor for all this
new-fangled connectionless datagram stuff was X.25, a pay-per-connection
and pay-per-byte stream service.
As PHB says, intentions back then hardly matter anyway.
Maybe we can leave this debate to some USA local discussion list
where it belongs? Those of us in the economies where there is
competition on the local loop are not that interested.
Brian
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