Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!CERF From: CERF@A.ISI.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Announcing a little board-room shakeup Message-ID: <[A.ISI.EDU]29-Jul-89.05:18:51.CERF> Date: 29 Jul 89 09:18:00 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Ross, Bob may already have responded (I persist in going through my mail sequentially), but here is my two cents. The IAB works very closely with the FRICC which is the government group which sponsors most of the Internet backbone and deals with international connections to the Internet. The government supports the IAB and its subsidiary groups, IETF and IESG, and many of the members of these groups continue to be supported individually by government research grants and cooperative agreements. Things haven't really changed all that much from the days with DARPA sponsored the whole thing - except that in place of DARPA, the FRICC acts to set government policy and to fund the R&D and infrastructure work necessary to keep the Internet healthy and relevant. Vint Cerf