[2400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Apr 5 13:43:58 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:29:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
The NSF didn't use the term "backbone," but it did use the term NSP - Network
Service Provider. The NSF definition for NSP was
- connect to hubs called priority Network Access Points,
- route and carry traffic to or from any research and education location,
and
- make the routes available to a routing arbiter
The implementation wasn't as clean as the definition.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
