[10658] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Network Access Points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Fri Mar 4 08:16:06 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: steve@nsf.gov (Stephen Wolff)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 10:01:52 -0600 (CST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.07.9403021321.A2924-9100000@mon.cise.nsf.gov> from "Stephen Wolff" at Mar 2, 94 01:51:21 pm
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> As a result of the competitive process described in Program Solicitation
> 93-52, the National Science Foundation has selected the following
> organizations and initiated negotiations of awards for management and
> operation of Network Access Points (NAPs):
>
> MFS Datanet for a NAP in Washington, DC,
>
> Sprint, for the New York NAP, and
>
> Bellcore, for the California NAP to be managed and operated by PacBell and
> for the Chicago NAP to be managed and operated by Ameritech,
>
> -s
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Anyone want to speculate what this does to ANS? I know they were counting
on getting some of these..... or at least, some of their salespeople were
rather confident they would get MOST of them when we were negotiating
with them. It now appears that isn't happening.
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