RFC 1359 (rfc1359) - Page 2 of 25
Connecting to the Internet - What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate
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RFC 1359 Connecting to the Internet August 1992
4.2 Connection to the Mid-level Network.......................... 11
4.3 IP Addresses and Domain Names................................ 11
4.4 Technical Issues............................................. 12
4.5 Support...................................................... 12
4.6 Training..................................................... 13
4.7 Promotion.................................................... 13
5. Full Production/Maintenance................................... 13
5.1 Technical Issues............................................. 14
5.2 Human Factors................................................ 14
6. Evaluation Strategies......................................... 15
7. Appendix A. Partial List of IP Service Providers.............. 16
8. Appendix B. NSFNet Backbone Services Acceptable Use Policy.... 22
9. References.................................................... 23
10. Security Considerations....................................... 24
11. Authors' Addresses............................................ 24
1. Acknowledgements
This document was created through the efforts of the ACM SIGUCCS
Networking Taskforce. NETTF was created in 1989 under the direction
of Martyne Hallgren and with the approval and support of the SIGUCCS
Executive Board.
The Networking Taskforce was created to increase awareness and
understanding of the Internet, to disseminate information and
research on development and use of the Internet, to promote
innovative and appropriate use of Internet resources, and to initiate
and encourage cooperation between the SIGUCCS membership and other
organizations, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),
with similar goals towards networking.
2. Introduction
The Internet is a world-wide network of networks with gateways
linking organizations in North and South America, Europe, The Pacific
Basin and other countries not previously included. The organizations
are administratively independent from one another. There is no
central, worldwide, technical control point. Yet, working together
these organizations have created what to a user seems to be a single
virtual network that spans the globe.
The networks all use a common suite of networking protocols, TCP/IP.
It is because of this commonality of protocols, this commonality of
network functionality and interoperability that the networks provide
what may appear to be a seamless, integrated virtual network,
irregardless of the underlying heterogeneity of the underlying
computer hardware or communications transport.
NETTF