The Internet is and always has been a decentralized topology. When a data packet needs to go from San Diego to Seattle it doesn’t go through Washington D. C. on the way. Some functions are by necessity hierarchical like DNS.
22 posted on 09/30/2016 8:44:52 PM PDT by steve86
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