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From: dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:53:57 +0100
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Richard Bennett wrote:
>
> I don't know that economics has much to do with this, beyond the assumption
> that packet-switching is more economical for human-computer interactions than
> circuit-switching is. The Internet wasn't designed by economists.

What about Internet-scale topology / the EGP -> BGP transition /
privatization and the removal of the NSFNET backbone.

Tony.
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GOOD.

References:
- [ih] principles of the internet
  - From: mbaer at cs.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Bärwolff)
- [ih] principles of the internet
  - From: richard at bennett.com (Richard Bennett)

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