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From: kasten@europa.interlan.COM (Frank Kastenholz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
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Date: 14 Jun 90 12:47:23 GMT
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 > From tcp-ip-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL Thu Jun 14 08:37:24 1990
 > From: Jack Haverty <haverty@BBN.Com>
 > Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
 > To: CSYSMAS@oac.ucla.edu
 > Cc: haverty@BBN.Com, tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil
 > Mail-System-Version: <MacEMail_1.2.2@BBN.COM>
 > 
 > Perhaps instead of retiring #10 to a museum, we could have a ceremony
 > at Interop where the number is officially "retired", and a banner hoisted
 > to the ceiling - anybody volunteer to make a banner out of fishnet?
 > Then net 10 could be assigned to be used to create a bunch of class B
 > numbers for aspiring neonetworks who want to follow in the Arpanet's
 > footsteps (yes I know that's technically difficult).
 > 
 > Jack
 > 
 > Dan Lynch - are you listening....
 > 

How about officially assigning NET 10 to Interop - then it could be brought out
of retirement each year for all of the newcomers to look at - sort of like
the IMP last year. Maybe during the "off season" Interop could keep 2 PC's
running in a backroom on some Ethernet, pinging each other - on NET 10.

Frank Kastenholz
Racal Interlan