toasternet

toasternet

(networking)1. A low cost, low tech, publicly accessiblelocal community network. This is probably an extension ofthe term "toaster" used to mean a small, cheap, slowcomputer.

community networks.

2. The title of some informal notes on IP addressing,("Toasternet Part I and II"), circulated on the IETFmailing list during November 1991 and March 1992.

Subsequent work was published in June 1993 in RFC 1475 andRFC 1476 and the "CATNIP" Internet-Draft by RobertL. Ullmann