[ih] birth of the Internet?

[Vint Cerf]

NSF program managers also espoused and supported the Network Access
Points for interconnection in place of the NSFNET as it was retired in
1995.

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Dave CROCKER <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/28/2010 10:33 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>
>> Larry Press wrote:
>>>
>>> Would it be fair to say that NSFNet grew up to be The Internet, where
>>> some of
>>> the other things being mentioned were experiments or developments in
>>> internetworking?
>>
>> I think you have to review your timing. The Internet predates the NSFnet
>> by
>> several years.
>
>
> Right.
>
> NSFNet really qualifies as the /final/ stage of development of the Internet,
> before fully commercial adoption.
>
> It's introduction of an additional backbone forced core changes to the
> routing technology, but otherwise it had to do with expanding the Internet
> operationally, rather than in 'creating' the Internet.
>
> Besides the forcing function on BGP, it's 'innovation' was to seed
> organizations that created a commercial core to the public Internet.
>
> d/
> --
>
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net
>