[9939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Mon Jun 9 12:08:19 1997
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 15:45:26 -0700
To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9706051436.AA04777@ptavv.es.net>
At 07:36 AM 6/5/97 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
>It might be noted that both NASA and ESnet were originally primarily
>DECnet networks as they pre-date IP development by a little bit. They
>also, in there early forms (SPAN, HEPnet, and MFEnet) predate the
>NSFnet.
>
It's also worth noting that DECNET was a leading contender for the NSFNET.
Sid Karin, director of SDSC, tells the story that he was leaning toward
DECNET until he met a taciturn Teutonic network engineer from Ann Arbor who
convinced Sid among others that a TCP/IP backbone would work.
--Kent
