toasternet

networking 1. A low cost, low tech, publicly accessible

local community network. This is probably an extension of

the term "toaster" used to mean a small, cheap, slow

computer.

community networks(gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/00/Community/communets/about.nets).

2. The title of some informal notes on Internet addressing,

("Toasternet Part I and II"), circulated on the IETF

mailing list during November 1991 and March 1992.

Subsequent work was published in June 1993 in RFC 1475 and

RFC 1476 and the "CATNIP" Internet-Draft by Robert

L. Ullmann

(1995-05-01)