[2270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG/IEPG/ISOC's current role
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rboivie@vnet.IBM.COM)
Mon Apr 1 18:33:26 1996
From: rboivie@vnet.IBM.COM
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 18:15:28 EST
To: gcook@tigger.jvnc.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Gordon,
Small point. The NSFnet backbone service ended on April 30, 1995
(not '94).
Rick Boivie
rboivie@vnet.ibm.com
> commercial internet matured and the federal gov't withdrew. Last traffic
> reports march 1994!? Of course! This was the month before the last
> gov't funded backbone (NSFnet) was turned off. Since then the traffic
> statistics have been the **proprietary** possessions of Sprint, MCI,
> UUNET, ANS, etc.
