On 13-05-15 14:07, Owen DeLong wrote: > If we, as network engineers can't agree on the nature and definition of the > internet, > how can we possibly expect the media to understand it?
When someone cuts a cable in the meditarenean, the media doesn't say "the internet has crawled to a snail's pace", it says "internet connections in the middle east are very slow". If DNS servers at Comcast fail, one doesn't say "the internet has suffered a failure". Generally , if one uses the expression "the internet", it would generally mean the generic term which encompasses the whole internet. So you can state "Syria is disconnected from the internet". If root servers went down around the world, then one could state that "the internet has suffered a failure".
