<div dir="ltr"><br><div style><joke></div><div style>In a Digital World, how much credit you can give to an "Analog" publication ?</div><div style></joke></div><div style><br></div><div style>I remember that on the late 80's when we were working on getting Argentina connected to some research network, it became USG policy to promote only connections the the Internet and NSF was generous enough to pay for a missing link to interconnect a satellite link drop we had in the Argentinean UN Permanent Mission with a router port in SURANet thatnks to Glenn Ricart's and the UMD folks that offered us a "free" port.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>We (not all of us, many, including myself strongly believed that the future was to being part of Internet) had a local discussion about if connecting to Bitnet, or CSNet, etc. Stephen Wolf from NSF at that time helped settle the "dispute" making it clear that the NSF will sponsor our connection *if and only if* it was to the Internet.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>This was before NSF (Steve Goldstein) made the deal with Sprint for ICM (International Connections Manager.)</div><div style><br></div><div style>My .02</div><div style><br></div><div style>
-J</div><div style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Alex McKenzie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amckenzie3@yahoo.com" target="_blank">amckenzie3@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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