Re: What is at stake?

[vint cerf <vinton.g.cerf at wcom.com>]

Mike,
actually DCA had only responsibility for the ARPANET 
and MILNET, officially. The rest were the responsibility
of the network operators - usually schools and research labs.
In 1981 the CSNET project brought up non-DoD components
including PhoneNet and the X.25 extension of Internet 
developed by Univ Wisconsin. This was an NSF-funded initiative.

The first NSFNET backbone came up in 1986 (Dave Mills' fuzzballs).

Vint

At 10:24 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Michael StJohns wrote:
>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.
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>At 08:57 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Ari Ollikainen wrote:
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>>        Really?
>>
>>        Could you name the entity (and network) that you claim
>>        centrally controlled "the Internet" a decade ago?