[2539] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Trust and the T-3 Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Davis)
Sat Mar 14 20:35:59 1992
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1992 20:28:10 -0500
From: Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>
To: peter@goshawk.lanl.gov
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: peter@goshawk.lanl.gov's message of Sat, 14 Mar 1992 13:05:57 GMT
[DISCLAIMER: these are my personal opinions only and are not the
official opinions of the Electronic Frontier Foundation unless Mitch, or
someone else in a more official position than I, says so.]
>> == Peter Ford <peter@goshawk.lanl.gov>
>> From your comments to date, it appears to me that you consider the
>> operation of the NSFnet as a trivial undertaking and that it can be
>> switched to any technology base in no time. Unfortunately it is not
>> that simple, NSFnet plays a very special role inside the global
>> Internet and it is far more than simply a 16 node network. I am
>> sure the Merit staff can explain all of this to you while you are
>> out there.
I think Gordon (and some of the rest of us) are more concerned with
whether the network is truly a 16 node network, or an eight node
network[*], or a two node network. We're told it's a 16 node network,
but is it?
>> they have done a pretty good job in pushing things ahead. They have
>> kept the global Internet wired together so far
As long as you're not sending impure commercial bits, in which case
you're out of luck.
Personal experience department: I recently had to "indirectly" ftp a
file because the T1 NSFNET was having problems between College Park and
Ithaca. I had to use a NEARNET site as a stepping-stone, because the T1
was losing packets faster than a DevNull 666 router...
...and it reminded me of the early days of the T3. Teething problems
are all well and good, but if I hear "fully operational" and see packet
loss, I start to wonder.
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