[1540] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Is this the New NIC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ralphs@halcyon.com)
Fri Oct 25 12:21:20 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: ralphs@halcyon.com
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 08:24:38 PDT
cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook) writes:
> "Chantilly VA based Government System's Inc, a joint venture of MCI
> Telecommunications Corp. and Infonet Services Corp., has completed the
> transition of the Defense Data Network/Internet network Information Center
> Are they talking about the NIC for the Inter-agency Interim NREN here?? I
> did not realize the award had been made?
I hope their problems are not a portent of things to come. I've been told
the system operates on a SUN connected to the milnet with a 56kBaud link.
If this means what I think it does, the whole of milnet is being carried
on this 56kBaud circuit. The system is unusable 95% of the time, the
database is getting trashed on a regular basis, inquiries are not slow
in getting resolved, etc. What normally took a week to ten days to
accomplish is now being done in three.
On the surface, this seems to be the result of low-bid as opposed to
best-bid.
