is CERNET part of the Internet?

[yang.yu.list at gmail.com (Yang Yu)]

Most networks have some sort of firewall (hopefully...)

Isn't CERNET kind of similar to Internet2/NLR?
Members own their network
Free to join
Serve education&research community
Members encourage their users to use "the free network" instead of public
network when possible

Please correct me if I am wrong.


Yang

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

>
> I'm trying to figure out whether CERNET
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERNET
> is part of the official Internet, or is behind the Great Firewall where
> access to invididual networks on the public Internet must be explicitly
> granted. Anyone in the know?
>
>