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From: ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
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Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 19:14:00 GMT
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> If the official Internet<->BITNET gateway sites would get together and
> register an honest BIT.NET zone then all of us Internet-only sites
> could put

For years now, the idea of a BIT.NET zone (or any permutation thereof)
has been rejected by the "Name Czars".

I was hoping that the merger of CSnet and BITnet into CREN would have
straightened out this whole BITnet-Internet interoperability issue,
but as far as I know nothing has been done to tackle that problem (nor
any significant chunk of it).

It is rather sad that with all the talk of gigabit networks and
interoperability, no one seems to care enough about this issue to make
something happen.  I suspect that of those who do care, half are
waiting for BITnet to go away, and the other half are waiting for the
Internet to go away :-)

-Ittai