<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jan 11, 2016, at 6:10 AM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" class="">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(217, 217, 217); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Thanks to that concentration of network companies and a whole lot of support from the National Science Foundation, Tysons Corner became home to MAE-East, one of the earliest Internet exchanges and home to the foundation of what would become that Internet backbone.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">It’s a minor detail, but worth noting that the MAE-East exchange point established at MFS Tysons </div><div class="">corner by UUNET, PSI, and Sprintl-ICM in 1992, and hence was already in up and in operation</div><div class="">_prior_ to NSF’s involvement. The zero-dollar Network Access Point (NAP) concept in NSF </div><div class="">Solicitation 93-52 was modeled after MAE-East, and MAE-East was anointed at the time of the</div><div class="">award as one of the 4 official “NAPs”, even though it was pre-existing and operational already.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>