New subject: more on the ICANN saga

14 Mar 2002

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This is a great book, BTW. All network engineers should read 
it.
Just happen to have it handy.  Both of the earlier posters were
correct.  The book cites both Bob Taylor's priority on R&E
networks and Baran's goal of a resilient communications system
that could survive a nuclear holocaust.  *Inspiration* - instead
of measuring nuclear weapon destructive power in megatons, it
would perhaps be useful to express it in megabackhoes.

I suspect
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this misunderstanding grew out of the idea that some of the 
original papers
on packet switching used as one of their criteria, that the 
networks be highly survivable.
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With regards to the purpose of the internet, I recall reading
  in the Prologue to _Where Wizards Stay Up Late_, by Katie Hafner
  and Matthew Lyon, a true anecdote about Bob Taylor. The authors
  quote Mr. Taylor as refuting that the purpose of the arpanet was
  to provide communications in spite of a nuclear attack.

RE: Purpose of the Internet

Borchers, Mark

Jon King

Simon Higgs

Randy Bush

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