[ih] birth of the Internet?

[Richard Bennett]

They actually funded the NAPs, as I recall.  It didn't take long for the 
NAPs to be replaced by the carrier-neutral IXs.

RB

On 10/28/2010 11:26 AM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> 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
>>

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