[33] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Was a "big Internet" needed to make TCP/IP useful?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Fri Oct 26 09:43:59 1990
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@cise.nsf.gov>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 90 09:27:02 -0400
To: nowicki@Legato.COM
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> Every IETF meeting we hear about how the links have only 1-3% utilization,
Not the NSFNET Backbone. We see average loadings over 10% routinely, and
peak loads over 70%.
Moreover, NFS is not as large a fraction of the Backbone traffic as it is
typically on local- and campus-area nets; this says to me that the new
paradigm of computing -=> which you guys invented <=- hasn't yet spread
beyond the campus - but when it does (and it will: e.g., I hear the Fermilab
folk want to remote-mount the L3 data at CERN), look out!
> The NSF should cancel the 45 Mbps upgrade...
Capacity is only one reason for going to T3; there are scientific
applications that need 45 mb/s and more.
> ... and apply the money to real research instead.
Rutherford is reputed to have said that the first field of research is
Physics and the second is Stamp Collecting; I suspect you may have a slightly
less catholic view, but "real research" is subjective semantics at its worst.
-s
