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        RFC 1958:

        Title:      Architectural Principles of the Internet
        Author:     B. Carpenter, Editor
        Date:       June 1996
        Mailbox:    brian@dxcoms.cern.ch
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 17,345
        Updates/Obsoletes: none

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1958.txt


The Internet and its architecture have grown in evolutionary fashion
from modest beginnings, rather than from a Grand Plan. While this
process of evolution is one of the main reasons for the technology's
success, it nevertheless seems useful to record a snapshot of the
current principles of the Internet architecture. This is intended for
general guidance and general interest, and is in no way intended to be
a formal or invariant reference model.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
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