Really OT: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

["Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>]

From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
To: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:14:51 -1000
> > The internet is global and without boundries.  The US
> > highway system is domestic with boundries.
>
> the history of the interstate bill is quite interesting.
> among other things, it killed the trains, contributed to
> the degredation of the inner cities, ...  and guess which
> industries lobbied it through.
>
> and why does oahu have interstate highways, anyway?


All 56 miles of it, you mean?  Be careful on that H-1, it's
over 27 miles long.  Might run outta gas...  ;-)  

It's in the "Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960...right between
Opium Poppy Control Act and shortly before a passage headed
Purchases of Typewriters"
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_129.html.  Ever
wonder why it's called the "National System of Interstate
and *Defense* Highways"?  Rhetorical question...

Following NANOG methodology of late, we could make an
analogy to a MAN here.  Cars are packets, malformed data
inside many packets >:-(   MAJOR congestion at peak loads,
no timing on the line, etc.

scott