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A question to Gordon Cook on a recent message

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jrugo@nic.near.net)
Sat Mar 14 22:53:22 1992

To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 22:49:25 -0500
From: jrugo@nic.near.net

Gordon, 

In the message that follows you write...

} To: com-priv@psi.com
} Subject: Trust and the T-3 Network
} Date: 14 Mar 92 02:16:35 EST (Sat)
} Message-Id: <9203140216.AA25721@tmn.com>
} From: Gordon Cook <cook@tmn.com>


} <<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook                          14-MAR-92  2:16
}                  cook@tmn
}  Are there really no limits on the delivery to the NSFnet community of a 
} ......

} Is this what Jim Bruce of MIT meant when he told this list in December that he
} considered the foundation on which the NSF was building the NREN to be broken?

I believe that this is a misquote.  Could you check to make sure that Jim
wasn't referring to ANS' "COMBITS" scheme?  COMBITS can hardly be compared to
"the foundation on which the NSF was building the NREN".

Thanks in advance for looking into this.

- John Rugo
Manager, Network Services Group
BBN Systems and Technologies


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