Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either
A closed service available solely over the gprs network
Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to work like internet brandon
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either A closed service available solely over the gprs network
* brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]:
Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too
To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to work like internet
You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on their phones outside their home country). When a user "surfs the internet" from their handheld device they get the real Internet, not some walled garden that has .gprs. -- Niels.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: Hi,
To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to work like internet
You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on their phones outside their home country).
He has a point. Remember "Het Net"* as it was before they proxiet to the real internet. Users expected the internet and after a while, they got it. -- Sabri please do not throw salami pizza away * "Het Net", translated as "The Net" was an attempt by the dutch national telco in the late 90's to come up with a big intranet where users could dialup, using RFC1918 addresses and visit community and commercial sites. After a few months, proxy-support to the real internet was added and even later it was integrated into Planet.nl, a dutch dsl-isp.
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