Craig,
From RFC 1287:
"If I could PING you, and you could PING me, then we were both on the
Internet, and a satisfying working definition of the Internet could
be constructed as a roughly transitive closure of IP-speaking
systems. This model of the Internet was simple, uniform, and -
TSIGARIDAS PANAGIOTIS wrote:
I found this definition in the INTEROP Book of Carl Malamud.
The Internet (note the uppercase "I') is a network infrastructure that
supports reasearch, engineering, education, and commercial services.
The word internet (with a lowercase "i") refers to any
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Subject: Re: Defining "Internet" (or "internet")
TSIGARIDAS PANAGIOTIS wrote:
I found this definition in the INTEROP Book of Carl Malamud.
The Intern
Jim;
I always thought that Internet with capital "I" meant the Internet between
countries, whilst the internet with a lower case "i" is referred to by the
press as an intranet within a corporate structure. Both run IP but within
different environments.
They are same.
Eric Brunner wrote:
Anyone else with a normative legal reference, your favorite
...
I saw this in someone's sig line.
But what *IS* the internet?
It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric
closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP packet from".
The Swedish legal definition (Patrik provided the pointer) may not be the
only one which attempts to define what "Internet" is, fixed or broken, er,
"mobile".
Anyone else with a normative legal reference, your favorite jurisdiction or
someone else's, please drop me a line. I'll summarize to the
