[8342] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: WestREN???????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gwh@lurnix.com)
Mon Nov 15 16:03:48 1993
To: uunet!path.net!cook@uunet.uu.net (Gordon Cook)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, gwh@lurnix.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Nov 93 15:07:27 GMT."
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 12:24:52 -0800
From: gwh@lurnix.com
>I wonder whether my California acquaintance who was told that BARRnet was
>not a CIX member was told so because WestREN *IS*? The following is from
>a Barrnet readme file:
>[...]
>Would appreciate comment on what's up with this new WestREN corp. Was there
>a public annoncement of this? Will we see an EastREN, NorthREN, and SouthREN
>coming together to form CoREN?
The short story as I have been told it is that BARRnet had been
looking for some time to become independent of Stanford University,
which had previously operated it. While it's still co-located
with Stanford's networking center for the time being, the
WestREN network (thus BARRnet) is now legally independent of Stanford.
Someone from BARRnet should comment on CoREN, probably.
They can do more than speculate 8-)
-george william herbert
gwh@lurnix.com gwh@soda.berkeley.edu
