[ih] Question - reference source for formal decommissioning of ARPANET in 1990?

[Steve Crocker]

Mark Pullen might have some info re the last days of the Arpanet.  I've
cc'd him on this email.

Steve


On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 9:18 AM Alex McKenzie via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately the reference Da in April 1998ve provides doesn't say that
> the ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.  What it does say is "DARPA took
> the first steps toward dismantling ARPANET in April 1988, with the
> announced intention of completing the job within 3 years."
> Alex
>
>     On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 9:15:24 PM EST, dave walden via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>  I believe Alex McKenizie and I also say it in the following, if this is
> a good enough reference for the citation you want:
>
> “The ARPANET, the Defense Data Network, and the Internet”, Encyclopedia
> of Telecommunications, Marcel Dekker, Inc., Volume 1, pp. 341-376. I can
> perhaps find a specific page number.
>
>
> On 12/1/2020 8:56 PM, Dan York via Internet-history wrote:
> > Question for this group… does anyone know of a source (preferably
> online) that says something definitive about the decommissioning of the
> ARPANET in 1990?
> >
> > As I mentioned some time back, I’ve been doing some editing of Wikipedia
> pages as a personal project during these pandemic days, and on both of
> these pages:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#History
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
> >
> > There is the statement:
> >
> >    "The ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.”
> >
> > This was flagged by another editor as “citation needed”. In searching
> around, I found many articles that made a reference to the ARPANET being
> decommissioned in 1990 (either in February or July depending upon the
> article), but nothing I would call “definitive” (or in Wikipedia lingo a
> “reliable source<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources>”).
> Most articles seem to be repeating info that probably came from other
> articles!  But nothing “official” that states that ARPANET ended in 1990.
> >
> > I searched in our own (ISOC) history docs. I found an ICANNWiki page<
> https://icannwiki.org/ARPANET> that similarly states at the end that the
> ARPANET was shut down in 1990 but again provides no source. I searched
> RFCs. I searched for early NSFNet documents that might mention it. I’ve
> found many articles (including from people on this list) about the birth
> and early years of the ARPANET, but haven’t yet found anything about its
> ending.
> >
> > Any suggestions or pointers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> > P.S. For the purpose of removing the “citation needed” flag, I added a
> reference on one of those links to a 2019 media article that mentioned the
> ARPANET ending in 1990, but that’s not a good reference and I’d like to
> replace it with something more definitive.
> >
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