[2411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG/IEPG/ISOC's current role
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rboivie@vnet.IBM.COM)
Fri Apr 5 15:29:52 1996
From: rboivie@vnet.IBM.COM
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 96 15:26:22 EST
To: gcook@tigger.jvnc.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Gordon, I don't have any thoughts to share re: the posting or non-posting
of traffic stats. I just wanted to correct the point regarding the
termination of the NSFnet backbone service.
Thanks,
Rick Boivie
>OOOPS! <blush> you are right.
>
>But, isn't the point two fold? While NSFnet stats were available for
>another year is anyone going to seriously blame ISOC for not having them on
>display a year after the fact? They are surely available some where.
>Many reading this list would likely know where in an instant. I'd turn
>to an Altavista search and to the NSF web stite to find them.
>
>second point. For a year now nothing has been available and given the
>nature of the new market place, how could one reasonably expect them to
>be available except by looking a through put figures at the MAEs. MAE
>East in particular.
>
>
>On Mon, 1 Apr 1996 rboivie@VNET.IBM.COM wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
