[ih] Hesitating to disagree with one of the fathers of the Internet..

[Dave Walden]

>As I recall, BBN was the only (principal?) corporation involved in 
>the NWG.  Others were government and academia and a few non-profits.

As I said in my message a few minutes ago, BBN was probably the 
largest group and we were a non-government and non-academic 
corporation.  However Network Analysis Corporation which did the 
topological design was also was such a corporation, and ATT Long 
Lines was certainly such a corporation (they didn't help with the 
design; thus just supplied the lines under contract to the 
government).  Also, some of the early host sites might have 
subcontracted their IMP interface implementation to a small private 
company, e.g., maybe at UCSB.  Also, while BBN was nominally 
for-profit and SRI was nominally non-profit, I don't think there was 
much practical different between how the two of them operated and 
interacted with the government.  Neither was a government or academic 
organization; both were (are) contract R&D places.