Re: What is at stake?

[Michael StJohns <mstjohns at mindspring.com>]

Umm... ok - 15 years ago.  US DOD, Defense Communications Agency under an 
agreement with ARPA ran the Internet (all 20-50 networks of it) and its 
"core routing system". In fact the internet was actually called the "DOD 
Internet".  It wasn't until around '87 that a non-government  sponsored 
system (e.g. a system that wasn't sponsored or under contract to DOD, NSF, 
DOE...) was connected to the ARPANet/MILNET core.


At 08:57 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Ari Ollikainen wrote:

>         Really?
>
>         Could you name the entity (and network) that you claim
>         centrally controlled "the Internet" a decade ago?