[1559] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet paranoia [on DDN]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Fri Nov 8 17:30:42 1991
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe2@BBN.COM>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9110270209.AA08802@gunter-emh.af.mil>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 17:27:40 EDT
>1 REFERENCE A TASKED SERVICES/AGENCIES TO DETERMINE IF THE DEFENSE DATA
>NETWORK (DDN) MILNET/INTERNET IS A VALID REQUIREMENT.
>... I do a lot of business with several entities that are on internet
>and to lose this capability will hurt. We recently consummated a site license
>for Osan Air Base with McAfee Associates for vscan. The ability to contact
>them via internet and also get updates that we need will be gone if the
>internet connection is gone. My 3B2 multi-user systems are all using the most
>recent version of C-Kermit thanks to my ability to connect to Columbia U. I
>have recently picked up a couple of "bug" fixes for DOS 5 that was provided by
>Microsoft and since they are also an internet user, I (we) have access to them
>too.
It looks to me like the DDN needs a connection to the CIX. :-)
--Kent
