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So, what's Internet?
- A bottom-up collection of networks
- TCP/IP is the only common factor
- Bureaucracy-free, reliable, cheap
- Decentralized, democratic, chaotic
- Internet Society (www.isoc.org)
- Internet Engineering Task Force (www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/home.html)
Sridhar Iyer
2001-01-08