[5196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intra/Inter - was Inet-II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani(maillists))
Fri Oct 11 15:31:57 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:18:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>
To: swolff@cisco.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> From: swolff@cisco.com (Stephen Wolff)
> Subject: Re: Intra/Inter - was Inet-II
> *Whenever* there is public funding of *any* activity, an AUP is attached to
> oulaw the misuse of taxpayer money. Internet II is not exempt.
I see in today's SF Chronicle that Cisco is one of the promoters
of the Internet-II project along with Stanford, other universities
and companies. Perhaps you could start by convincing Cisco mgmt
and save cisco shareholders' money.
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:29:02 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@bifrost.seastrom.com>
> Would it be impolite to point out that if a $100M R&D effort would
> create the technology for a 2-3 order of magnitude speed-up, that the
> private sector would be falling all over themselves right this second
> to make it happen?
Unrelated but see above the support of Cisco, Sprint etc.
The same article quoted someone at EFF that there is no need
for a new Internet as the current one can be made faster by using
cable modems. Hmmm..
Sanjay.
