Mike,
actually DCA had only responsibility for the ARPANET
and MILNET, officially. The rest were the responsibility
of the network operators - usually schools and research labs.
In 1981 the CSNET project brought up non-DoD components
including PhoneNet and the X.25 extension of Internet
developed by Univ Wisconsin. This was an NSF-funded initiative.
The first NSFNET backbone came up in 1986 (Dave Mills' fuzzballs).
Vint
At 10:24 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Michael StJohns wrote:
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?