Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies - the internet is a tree.

2004-04-11 Thread Bill Stewart
It's a tree No, it's not a tree I thought we were sort of an autonomous collective! Watery marketers lobbing Powerpoints is no basis for a form of architecture Network engineers spend a lot of time making sure that their networks, and the Internet, are not trees. Multiple peering and

Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies - the internet is a tree.

2004-04-10 Thread sunder
Jim Dixon wrote: Yes. I know what a tree is, and I am quite familiar with structure of the Internet. These very pretty pictures certainly look like the Internet I am familiar with, but don't resemble trees. It is a tree. I'll give you a hint. Think of this: God is like an infinite sphere,