[ih] Eyes on the Internet?

[Jacob Goense]

On 2015-09-22 13:02, Craig Partridge wrote:
> My guess, purely a guess, is this was in the NSA research group.  For a 
> number
> of years, NSA had an excellent data comms research group (may still) 
> focused
> on how to meet NSA's data comms requirements (think moving around all 
> the
> data it collected in a secure fashion -- *not* how to hack systems).  
> Some
> of that research group had ARPANET/Internet access and participated in
> Internet standards work in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

That would explain the link to the east (NBS). The west link (SDAC) was
probably a genuine interest in seismic data. Ears on the ground.
See eg. page 14 http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a020480.pdf