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

[Dave Walden]

According to the wikipedia, it separated from Stanford in 1970.  I 
stand by what I said that it was hard (at least for me) to tell BBN 
and SRI apart in how they worked, the kind of contacts they went for, 
etc., including their closeness to nearby university faculty and 
students to hire either as consultants or permanently.

At 07:53 PM 5/10/2012, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>On 5/10/2012 5:02 PM, 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.
>
>Probably not important to the discussion, but SRI was part of 
>Stanford through the 1970's, right?  Non Academic?
>
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