Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:16:47 -0700
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>Subject: Re: Defining "Internet" (or "internet")
>To: "vinton g. cerf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Thanks for deciphering my blurb into something that makes sense. ( can you send
>this on to the IETF mailing list, so I don't recieve similar mails for the rest
>of the night correcting me ;-> )
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>Regards
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>Jim
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>"vinton g. cerf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/07/2000 08:26:07 PM
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>Sent by: "vinton g. cerf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Jim Stephenson-Dunn/C/HQ/3Com
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>Subject: Re: Defining "Internet" (or "internet")
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>the capital I meant the public Internet - nothing to do with countries -
>just that this was the global, publicly accessible Internet.
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>"internet" meant a private network that used IP technology.
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>vint
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>At 04:09 PM 7/7/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >I always thought that Internet with capital "I" meant the Internet between
> >countries, whilst the internet with a lower case "i" is referred to by the
> >press as an intranet within a corporate structure. Both run IP but within
> >different environments.
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> >Just my 2 cents.........
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> >Jim
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