[8447] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: DISA Announces Plans to Separate DDN from the InterNet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Fri Nov 19 15:17:54 1993
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: RAF@cu.nih.gov (Roger Fajman)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 15:16:11 -0500 (EST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9311190207.AA23638@psi.com> from "Roger Fajman" at Nov 18, 93 08:58:22 pm
> > Ah, but it may affect you. How many ftp sites in use today are on systems
> > served by DNN? Yes, Simtel was an obvious one, but aren't there others?
> > How about ones from NIH or NASA...??? Will those agencies be willing to
> > set up a mirror outside the firewall -- or will they see that as a way to
> > increase the "incremental cost of providing the information to the public"?
>
> NIH is not on MILNET. We connect to NSFNET via SURAnet.
Likewise, I thought that NASA had it's own arrangements.
DDN is Defense Data Network... Should be just .mil, not .gov, or .org
etc.
Nasa would be an unacceptable loss...
> Roger Fajman Telephone: +1 301 402 4265
> National Institutes of Health BITNET: RAF@NIHCU
> Bethesda, Maryland, USA Internet: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV
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