[419] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
tcp/ip and the east block, i though we had fixed this.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Mar 22 19:14:32 1991
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 18:27:26 EST
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
from sci.med.physics article from trevorc@uwovax.uwo.ca,
"Report from ACR Workshop on Networks". (American College
of Radiology workstion meeting march 14-15 '91.) message id
<1991Mar22.072350.8871@uwovax.uwo.ca> so you can look it up.
... Thursday afternoon commenced with a further description of the
NSFNET management by Susan Calcari of the Merit Corporation which
manages NSFNET. She described what NSFNET is and how Merit fits in
to the whole management of the network. She described the various
other networks such as MILNET and NASA which fit into INTERNET and
described how the network goes from the campus to the regional,
then national and finally to the world level. ...
In response to a question regarding the connection of INTERNET
into Eastern block countries, Ms. Calcari pointed out that INTERNET
is dependant upon TCP/IP and this is a technology which cannot be
exported to East block countries. Only BITNET connections are
allowed to the Eastern block.
(end of sound bite)
As far as I know there is existing use of tcp/ip in the Soviet Union,
and that the USA has more or less nothing to say about that except
to (e.g.) deny access to NSFNET networks; it would be good for the
people giving the NSFNET/merit presentations to give the right answer
when questions come up. (whatever that answer is.)
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