[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[woody at pch.net (Bill Woodcock)]

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On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Eric Gade wrote:
> Sorry to rudely change the topic, but since people appear to be in a lively mood for debate, I wanted to ask a very broad question. To what extent can we consider the DDN NIC of the late 80s as a "model" for other similar network administrative organizations throughout the world?

Model at what level?  As a functional diagram, requests came in, were validated, then either discarded or fulfilled.  That seems to encapsulate the limited-resource-allocation function at its simplest...  I assume you mean at some more complex level?

                                -Bill




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