[ih] Thank you! Re: Question - reference source for formal decommissioning of ARPANET in 1990?

[Dan York]

Thank you all!  I now have several references that will work for what I need in Wikipedia-land. Providing that info is MUCH appreciated and will help make Wikipedia better.

And Craig, yes, it IS odd that that article is the only one missing from https://dl.acm.org/toc/sigcomm-ccr/1990/20/5 . Perhaps there was something with copyright on the maps that did not allow them to be posted.

Thank you,
Dan


On Dec 2, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Craig Partridge <craig at tereschau.net<mailto:craig at tereschau.net>> wrote:

ACM SIGCOMM CCR, October 1990, p. 81 has an introduction to a collection of ARPANET maps with comments from Vint Cerf.  The intro starts with "The ARPANET was turned off this summer, after over 20 years in service."  The introduction also has a timeline and its last entry is "July '90 - The ARPANET is retired."

For reasons unclear, ACM has chosen not to digitize this part of CCR or its intro but you can see it in the table of contents (https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/action/showFmPdf?doi=10.1145%2F381906).

Craig (who was CCR editor at the time and has a copy near his desk...)