[ih] Ingrid Burrington on North Virginia

[John Curran]

On Jan 11, 2016, at 6:10 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com <mailto:joly at punkcast.com>> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to that concentration of network companies and a whole lot of support from the National Science Foundation, Tysons Corner became home to MAE-East, one of the earliest Internet exchanges and home to the foundation of what would become that Internet backbone.

It’s a minor detail, but worth noting that the MAE-East exchange point established at MFS Tysons 
corner by UUNET, PSI, and Sprintl-ICM in 1992, and hence was already in up and in operation
_prior_ to NSF’s involvement.   The zero-dollar Network Access Point (NAP) concept in NSF 
Solicitation 93-52 was modeled after MAE-East, and MAE-East was anointed at the time of the
award as one of the 4 official “NAPs”, even though it was pre-existing and operational already.

/John

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