kevin@sol.UUCP (Kevin Kelleher) (05/05/89)
How does one join Internet? Kevin Kelleher uunet!xilinx!kevin Xilinx Inc (408) 559-7778
ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) (05/10/89)
Could anyone tell me what is the precise definition of 'Internet'? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | USMAIL: Guangliang He | INTERNET: ghe@PHYSICS.ORST.EDU Department of Physics | ghe@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU Oregon State University | BITNET: hegl@orstvm.bitnet Corvallis, OR 97331 | PHONE: (503) 754-4631 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
bob@monster.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (05/10/89)
In article <10499@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
Could anyone tell me what is the precise definition of 'Internet'?
I'll take a stab at a loose definition:
When capitalized, "Internet" generally refers to that set of
interconnected machines between which packets can be routed using IP
(the Internet routing Protocol) and which can all exchange IP-routed
packets with, e.g., sri-nic.arpa.
When in lower case, "internet" means any set of local connections that
interoperate in some way to enable the exchange of information between
entities not on the same local network. Used this way, the
international X.25 packet switching vendors' facilities form an
internet where they touch, and the telephone companies form an
internet, and the collection of interconnected computer networks that
(among themselves) talk protocols like TCP/IP, DECnet, Appletalk, XNS,
RJE (Bitnet), UUCP, and Fido collectively form some sort of internet.
A company's internal network might also meet this definition, though
it might not necessarily interoperate with "the rest of the world."gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) (05/15/89)
/ news.sysadmin / doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) / May 13, 1989 / > >In article <3174@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: > >... > >You can become fully legal several ways: > > All of them involved mandating connectivity, e.g. through uunet. No, they don't. You need an Internet forwarder, but you don't have to be immediately connected to it. The Internet forwarder just needs to be able to accept your mail and send it on to you, through whatever path is available. Jacob Gore Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore
waters@dover.sps.mot.com (Mike Waters) (05/16/89)
In article <10499@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes: >Could anyone tell me what is the precise definition of 'Internet'? If you have to ask you need to read the article: "Notable Computer Networks" by Quarterman and Hoskins, CACM Oct 1986, No. 10, pp932-971 Should be available from almost any library. We asked trhe same question about a year ago and my copy STILL gets re-read about twice a month. In short its a wealth of information on the subject.
michael@nwnexus.WA.COM (Michael Shemet) (08/02/90)
Could someone mail me the path form one should use to send mail to Compuserve users via internet?