[Outages-discussion] Internet "backbone"

[Keegan Holley]

2011/11/19 Joseph Jackson <jjackson at aninetworks.net>

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> On 11/18/2011 09:15 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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>> On Nov 19, 2011, at 4:26 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
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>>  Since then, it has never had any meaning, of any type.  At least not any
>>> serious meaning.
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>> It tends to crop up in discussions in which the participants refer to
>> 'cyber-' this and 'cyber-' that, which is all one really needs to know
>> about the seriousness of both the conversations in question and the
>> participants engaged in same.
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>> ;>
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> Thanks for all the replies everyone.  While some seem to think the
> default-free zone is the core or internet fabric I still don't think its a
> good description.  As to disabusing the idea that there is an internet
> "backbone" or "core" I think network engineers/admins are the first line in
> that fight.  I know network admins that still say internet backbone and
> core and I think its high time the community started getting the way they
> conceptualize such topics to be more fact based than some nebulous terms.
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> TL;DR - The community needs to educated each other and our end users so as
> people better understand how this highly complex network works and is
> designed.
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I'm just glad we managed to kill the term "information super-highway".  I
found that one especially obnoxious.
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