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> if the ARPAnet originators hadn't messed this up by dropping the Internet layer and renaming the Network Layer to the 'Inter'net layer. Can you send elaborat
by bavell 7y ago
> if the ARPAnet originators hadn't messed this up by dropping the Internet layer and renaming the Network Layer to the 'Inter'net layer.
Can you send elaborate? Genuinely curious.
- tgragnato 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet Back in the day the network layer was not standardised nor interoperable. The "International Network Working Group" provided a communication protocol (TCP/IP) capable of hiding the differences of the different networks. > the job of the TCP is merely to take a stream of messages produced by one HOST and reproduce the stream at a foreign receiving HOST without change. [Cerf] That network of networks demonstrated the feasibility of the concept of interconnection. The resulting net eventually became the global inter-network... INTERNET
- no_identd 7y agoNot my point tho, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108739 Interconnected Network Networking (what we have today)≠Interconnected Internetwork Internetworking (what we should have but don't) The latter enables recursive structures, the former doesn't.
- bavell 7y agoThank you, this is what I was looking for.
- no_identd 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21108739