On 10/30/23 13:46, Daniel AJ Sokolov via Starlink wrote:
There is an irony in this: Wasn't the internet a military project
meant to survive armageddon?

Not exactly, but it was funded from an ARPA project that investigated
the ability of packet protocols to route around the loss of multiple
links.  The specific loss ARPA was talking about was "link blown up by
an atom bomb" (;-))

I think it's time for governments to start thinking like ARPA again.

--dave

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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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