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Re: A Dumb Question?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Hobby)
Mon Nov 12 16:58:49 1990

From: rdhobby@ucdavis.edu (Russ Hobby)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 13:33:27 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com

> To a certain degree this is already happening.  BARRNet, the Bay Area
> Regional Research Network has an "out-of-band" connection to the regional
> networks in Southern California.  This link is on a fiber that runs along
> the California aqueduct between Northern California and Southern California.
> Geoff
> 

Currently, both BARRNet and the BARRNet/CERFNet link use the NSFNET use
rules, thus only traffic that could flow over NSFNET anyway will flow
this link. So, this is not quite the same as inter-regional link that could
carry traffic not allowed on NSFNET (whatever that is ;-).

Russ
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