Re: the Internet Backbone

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 01:59 PM 4/5/96 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:

> The core of the US Internet, also known as the default-free core, no longer 
> follows a backbone topology. The core is composed of the major NSP's who 
> operate national backbones providing national transit and who interconnect
> at all or most of the public exchange points.

Also, it would preferable to omit 'US' from the above; the Internet
core doesn't reside solely in the United States.  :-)

- paul