[2545] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: A question to Gordon Cook on a recent message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James D. Bruce)
Sun Mar 15 07:50:38 1992
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 92 07:49:17
From: jdb@MIT.EDU (James D. Bruce)
To: jrugo@nic.near.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
John ----- You are correct. The context of the quote in
Gordon's note was ANS' COMBITS not the NREN.
..........................................................jim bruce
> To: com-priv@psi.com
> Subject: A question to Gordon Cook on a recent message
> 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
>
