On dinsdag, aug 19, 2003, at 09:14 Europe/Amsterdam, NM Research wrote:
Please qualify your false statement I would appreciate - what was
A-net all about.
The confusion that the ARPAnet supposedly had a military function stems
from the research done by Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation in the
early to mid 1960s. He proposed high-availability packet switched
network for military command and control. The ARPAnet however was about
logging in on remote computers so that researchers could more easily
work together.
As for making nuclear-proof standards: the IETF is all about running
code. How do you propose we test these protocols?