[ih] MAP & BBN

[Vint Cerf]

i will check with state dept.

v


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> actually, I was reminded of this by some of the wikileaks material - which
> is described as inter-governmental "diplomatic cables" - which look like
> formal message traffic -- which leads one to wonder what they were
> transmitted over
>
>
> Vint Cerf wrote:
>>
>> that was telegraph and telex...
>> v
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Leo Vegoda<leo at bind.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joly MacFie<joly at punkcast.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Weren't electric text communications popularly known as "cables" in the
>>>> early 20th C?
>>>
>>> As I understand it, governments still refer to "cables" for certain
>>> classes of inter-governmental communications. I doubt they still use
>>> telex networks, though.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Leo
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> In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
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