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From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1429788F-C02F-4136-9F38-DC30363F9F80@americafree.tv>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:56:12 -0400
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:51 13AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>=20
> On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Holmes,David A wrote:
>=20
>> Does a "... certain inventor of the Internet ..." refer to the High
>> Performance and Communications Act of 1991, also known as the "Gore
>> Act"? The 1991 Act, based on a study by Dr. Leonard Kleinrock =
("Towards
>> a National Research Network") created the commercial Internet that we
>> know and work with today.
>>=20
>=20
> I don't know, but I do know that Larry Pressler was the sole sponsor =
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which is where E-rate came from. =
This was when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, and as =
far as I know Senator Gore had nothing to do with this bill; he didn't =
even offer any amendments.
>=20
And while Gore was president of the Senate in 1996, he wasn't Senator =
Gore then...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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