[Outages-discussion] Internet "backbone"

[Joseph Jackson]

I think we should disabuse the notion that there is a Internet 
"backbone".  With all the interconnection of networks and POPs that 
services Internet connectivity is it correct to still consider that the 
internet has a backbone?  This isn't the NSFnet anymore with a few long 
haul links between sites.  When someone says Internet Backbone what are 
they trying to describe since such a physical infrastructure doesn't 
really exist anymore.

Just a thought I had...

Joseph