[1536] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Is this the New NIC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Fri Oct 25 08:43:00 1991
To: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 08:16:51 EDT
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
> Are they talking about the NIC for the Inter-agency Interim NREN here?? I
> did not realize the award had been made?
Not really. GSI won the competition based on an RFP from the Defense
Communications Agency (DCA) to replace SRI whose NIC contract was expiring.
Their primary charter is to service DCA customers (e.g., MILNET, etc.),
although NSF is funding them through DCA to continue BASIC services for the
Internet at large until NSF's NIC-for-the-NREN is on line.
GSI's only connection is via MILNET, so they are barely reachable from the
rest of the Internet. NASA and NSF are collaborating in providing them a T1
additional connection to (or near) FIX-E; it should come up in early November.
-s
