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Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website
From: Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:27:26 -0400
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:44:21PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
My fav part: <quote> "That's precisely how packets move around the internet, sometimes in a many as 25 or 30 hops with the intervening entities passing the data around having no contractual or legal obligation to the original sender or to the receiver." </quote> How many of you pass packets without getting paid?
in the case of intervening entities, it is true that they have no link to the sender or receiver. my packets from office to home can traverse at 3 or more networks that are not paid by me, or my company. they likely have contracts or obligations with their immediate neighbours, which is basically why the system continues to work. -- Jim Mercer jim () reptiles org +971 55 410-5633 "I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak." - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
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- Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 22)
- Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website Jim Mercer (Jul 23)
- RE: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website Deepak Jain (Jul 23)
- Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website William Herrin (Jul 23)
- RE: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website Winn Johnston (Jul 23)
- Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website Zartash Uzmi (Jul 25)
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- Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 22)
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