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Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Mar 1 13:54:03 2010
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:53:49 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B8BF393.40808@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:04:19 -0600
Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
> On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote:
> >
> >> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run
> >> network...
> >>
> >>
> > Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet
> > and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
> >
> > ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns.....
>
> And that is only the TLD label.
>
> Is there still a DARPANET, ARPANET's successor?
>
>
Depends on what you mean. As noted, there are government-only IP
networks, some of which are not connected to the public Internet.
SIPRNET, for example, is the "Secret IP Router Network", for
lightly-classified traffic.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
