RE: Lingua Franca Today

["Secara, Maggie" <Maggie -dot- Secara -at- indymacbank -dot- com>]

Maybe "common dialect"? :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net [mailto:quills -at- airmail -dot- net]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Lingua Franca Today
> 
> 
> At 1:10 PM -0500 1/14/02, kelley wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >A question: I'd written a report with a section in it on router 
> >attacks, geared toward techs and the executives in an IT dept:
> >
> >"The border gateway protocol (BGP) is a critical component of the 
> >Internet's routing infrastructure. It serves as a lingua franca 
> >between routers made by different manufacturers. When a company 
> >needs to move information from Manhattan to Milan in the click of a 
> >mouse, routers speak BGP to one another in order to move network 
> >traffic without losing it. "
> >
> >upon review, someone--an executive in the IT dept--wrote to ask what 
> >lingua franca meant in geek speak. he thought it was a contemporary 
> >phrase from the geek world.
> >

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