<div dir="ltr">Hello McTim, Parminder,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Not really. IMO, the openness and diversity of the internet are<br>
underpinned by it's decentralized architecture which maximizes end<br>
users' power to choose, creat and use the hardware, software, and<br>
services that best meet their needs.<br><div>
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Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
<a href="http://mctim.blogspot.com" target="_blank">mctim.blogspot.com</a></div></blockquote></div><br>In this context, here is some thing to ponder:<br><br><p><i>"The Internet works by voluntary association of private
parties—it's a Libertarian's dream. Individuals and companies
run networks. They build them and sell (or give away) access to them
to their customers, according to some business model. They then
interconnect their networks with other companies' networks, either for
free or for money. When the links are free, those are called
"settlement-free interconnections" or
"peering". When the interconnections are paid for by someone, these
are called "transit".
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With no governing regulation, everyone connects to others, either
for free or for money, whenever it is mutually beneficial. That's it.
The whole story. It's a very simple, clear system. And It works.... out of
this chaotic system a single, fully connected Internet has arisen:
almost everyone can reach almost everyone else, almost all the time.
The sheer value of the connected Internet forces providers to offer
full connectivity to the rest of the Internet." - from <a href="http://www.renesys.com/blog/2005/12/peering_the_fundamental_archit.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.renesys.com/blog/2005/12/peering_the_fundamental_archit.shtml</a><br>
</i><br><br clear="all">Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<br>-- ISOC India Chennai.<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/sivasubramanianmuthusamy</a><br>
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