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Network Functionality

The Internet Growth is remarkable. It is sustaining an exponential increase in end systems at 100 % per annum.gif This has led the community to start to worry about the current limits, and consider a next generation Internet protocol, the basic glue that holds the whole system together. Studying this is a good guide to how the Internet works so well today.



Jon Crowcroft
Wed May 10 11:46:29 BST 1995