[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[Jack Haverty]

Weren't those all managed by the same organization or its contractor, in 
the early 80s before EGP?

I remember that at one point BBN was the contractor managing CSNET (Dick 
Edmiston).   NSFNET started in mid-80s and IIRC was thoroughly dominated 
by Dave Mills' Fuzzballs.  Our experiences when Dave was experimenting 
with connecting his Fuzzies to the core Internet was a primary motivator 
for EGP, which made it possible for Fuzzies to connect and do their 
thing without impacting the core.   BBN had some managerial role in 
NSFNET too IIRC.

After EGP, and probably more importantly BGP, the world of 
Internetworking changed.

/Jack


On 7/20/21 4:03 PM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
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>> Jack Haverty wrote:
>>> What I was referencing was a non-technical design decision -- the 
>>> notion
>>> that there shouldn't be any single person, corporation, or organization
>>> "managing the network".   The ARPANET, and IIRC all other networks of
>>> the day, were under a single organization's control.
> Really?  NASA SPAN, DOEnet, then CSnet, and then the Supercomputer 
> Center Networks, and the NSFnet regionals & Backbone?
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