Re: [Air-l] A definition of the internet

On 10/17/06, Andrew Russell <arussell@jhu.edu> wrote:

I disagree. Choices and controversies - not accidents - created the TCP/IP Internet that we use today.

You're absolutely correct and I apologize if I was unclear in my meaning; I may have selected the wrong choice of words. I maintain that latching onto TCP/IP instead of their underlying principles, principles that emerged through those choices and controversies, is at best a shortsighted way to define the Internet. Kevin