Comment Re:Monopoly(TM) (Score 1) 302
On the contrary, the Internet consists of a huge number of networks that are connected to each other.
That's true in a sense, but not in any sense meaningful to this discussion. There is only one Internet in terms of the 32-bit universal address space of ipv4, and there is only one internet as far as the root servers to which all of DNS ultimately must defer.
Sweden has its own networks but there's only one Internet. If you dont' believe me just try hiding all of Sweden behind a NAT box, and see how many web pages get served from Sweden. If Sweden's networks weren't part of a single global Internet, none of your servers would be addressible from outside Sweden without far more port forwarding and address translation than is technically possible.
That's true in a sense, but not in any sense meaningful to this discussion. There is only one Internet in terms of the 32-bit universal address space of ipv4, and there is only one internet as far as the root servers to which all of DNS ultimately must defer.
Sweden has its own networks but there's only one Internet. If you dont' believe me just try hiding all of Sweden behind a NAT box, and see how many web pages get served from Sweden. If Sweden's networks weren't part of a single global Internet, none of your servers would be addressible from outside Sweden without far more port forwarding and address translation than is technically possible.
