Re: Defining "Internet" (or "internet")

Craig Simon <cls@flywheel.com> Sat, 08 July 2000 05:50 UTC

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Eric Brunner wrote:
> Anyone else with a normative legal reference, your favorite 
...

I saw this in someone's sig line.

But what *IS* the internet?

It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric
closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP packet from".
--Seth Breidbart 


cls