[1715] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: nsfnet as large-scale testbed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein--Ph 202-357-9717)
Fri Dec 13 11:53:14 1991
To: Matthew Lewis <matthew@ooc.uva.nl>
Cc: P.Kirstein@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK, NTIN84%gec-b.rutherford.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK,
Cc: comint@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Dec 91 12:01:25 GMT."
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 11:46:36 EST
From: Steve Goldstein--Ph 202-357-9717 <sgoldste@cise.cise.nsf.gov>
>>The UK is, as usual, playing bad
catch-up with the rest of the EC countries.<<
Well, if they are "catching up", they are doing
so fast. JANET IP Service (JIPS) has been announced
for the academic community, and UKnet provides EUnet-UUNET
services in UK, and a new IP services company is rapidly a-forming.
JIPS runs over JANET's X.25 infrastructure (IP tunnels).
JANET is also moving towards OSI. So, it's more than Coloured
Book Service there. AND they have absolutely first class technical
peopleworking in all these areas.
Don't know where you are coming from, but please do not unfairly
malign our good colleagues in UK!
Thanks,
Steve G.
NSF
