On Sep 30, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> ake note Internet does not contain really all networks around the
> word. There are still a lot of special networks around.
>
I should hope so!  The internet protocols were designed so that things
COULD talk to each other, not so that they'd HAVE to talk to each other.
In particular, the original split between ARPANet and MilNet was 
designed
to be rather tightly controlled.  Just because a network talks IP 
doesn't
mean it needs to be connected to the internet.

(if the whole argument is over who owns the root DNS servers, it
seems like a rather big discussion over a rather minor issue...)

BillW
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