[863] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Habegger)
Wed Jun 19 13:52:59 1991
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 11:46 MST
From: Jay Habegger <HABEGGER_J@bronze.Colorado.EDU>
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I am a student at CU and I was also at the ICA conference this year where
I managed to get some more info about TERN.
There seems to be some confusion about what form the architecture will
finally take. In the 4 page general description they state at one
point that "The transport costs will be minimized by using the existing
transport capacity of the NSFNET broadband (sic.) network" and they go
on later to say that the network will have a backbone network consisting
of 3-5 nodes "on or near the present NSFNET" network. I don't know
what the final outcome will be, but I find it hard to believe that they
will be allowed to NSFNET backbone for conducting the type of experiments
that they are interested in. The people to contact are:
Jim Sobczak (412) 859-3465
Leon Montgomery (412) 624-9432
Marin Weiss (412) 624-9430
It is my impression that ICA members - with the exception of academics -
are only vaguely aware that the Internet exists and the NREN remains
a mystery. Telling is that PSI, ANS, Infonet and CERFnet all failed
to attend the ICA Confernece or even distribute literature.
- Jay Habegger
