[ih] distributed network control: Usenet

[Miles Fidelman]

Well... yes.  I wasn't quite sure if you were alluding to BBN - I kind 
of thought you might have been referring to either DoD or the US Government.

Still - what about the various component networks - like NASA SPAN, and 
the European nets?  Or did those come later?

Miles


Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> 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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