Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

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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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