[ih] First Eurociscos [was Ethernet, was Why TCP]

[Johan Helsingius]

On 03-09-16 22:16, Jack Haverty wrote:

> Our focus at the time was on just getting transatlantic Internet to 
> work.  It would be interesting to see a historical account of what those 
> organizations were doing, why they had joined in to the Internet 
> research, and how they fared in the ITU/CCITT/ISO presence in Europe.

I guess the first, fully open-to-everybody transatlantic link
was in 1988 - between CWI (EUnet) and seismo. The NORDUnet US
connection came only a few days later.

http://godfatherof.nl/media/inetaccess.jpg

RIPE was formed in May 1989 to coordinate the European IP activities.

	Julf