And let us not forget the Defense Data Network as another IP backbone.
Geoff
On 03/14/2014 03:36 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 3/12/2014 7:59 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
If the NSFnet was "a precursor to the Internet,"
Forgive the distraction from the primary and entertaining controversy,
but it is best not to let the above phrasing stand, since NSFNet was
not a 'precursor'.
NSFNet was an (important) extension to the already-existing Internet.
Better still is that among its various contributions to Internet
growth was that it provided a second, recognized backbone, forcing the
development of BGP, which permits multiple independent backbones. As
such it moved away from a monopolistic backbone model.
d/