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

[John Day]

CCA who was doing the datacomputer.

Roland Bryan had his company ACC, although for this early early 
period that doesn't count.


At 18:02 -0400 2012/05/10, Dave Walden wrote:
>>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.