[ih] History question

[Dave Crocker]

On 9/7/2026 11:26 AM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history wrote:
> For networks, the advent of NSFNET in 1987.  Suddenly you could be
> connected to both ARPANET and NSFNET.


I had heard -- though I have no details -- that there was ad hoc 
multi-homing of networks prior to that, though NSFNet certainly forced 
formalization of the capability.

d/

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