[864] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
"Schools Mull T-3 Network"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Wed Jun 19 13:55:45 1991
To: Steve Cisler <sac@apple.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 12:11:49 EDT
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@cise.nsf.gov>
TERN will be **really** experimental, and not suited to be a user of the
NREN. The organisers want students to be able to run a variety of
protocols, to insert artificial delays, to take the net up and down, to
farble the packet switches in real time - in short to do all the things that
make sound pedagogical sense to **teach** networking, but which are
antithetical to what the the NREN is all about: the provision of stable,
reliable, production service. -s
