Umm... ok - 15 years ago. US DOD, Defense Communications Agency under an
agreement with ARPA ran the Internet (all 20-50 networks of it) and its
"core routing system". In fact the internet was actually called the "DOD
Internet". It wasn't until around '87 that a non-government sponsored
system (e.g. a system that wasn't sponsored or under contract to DOD, NSF,
DOE...) was connected to the ARPANet/MILNET core.
At 08:57 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Ari Ollikainen wrote:
Really?
Could you name the entity (and network) that you claim
centrally controlled "the Internet" a decade ago?