[123147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Broersma)
Mon Mar 1 12:50:11 2010
From: Ron Broersma <ron@nosc.mil>
In-Reply-To: <10497.1267464331@localhost>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:49:50 -0800
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: members-discuss@ripe.net, nanog@nanog.org,
Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven@cb3rob.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +0100, Arjan van der Oest said:
>=20
>>> (considering the fact that governments themselves are not capable of
>>> running anything but a gray-cheese-with-a-dial telephone network
>>=20
>> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run
>> network...
>=20
> And let's face it - the Arpa/Milnet was a test network, not a =
production
> network. =20
It may have started as a research network, but was very much used for =
production activities by late 70's and early 80's.
--Ron
(Site coordinator for Arpanet IMP #3)
