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From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
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Subject: Re: Internet routing Europe - USA -} Europe...
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Date: 4 Sep 90 04:59:54 GMT
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Just a few words of support for Lee from one who used to have JANET
style access to the Internet i.e. poor to non-existent when I was at Newcastle.

I have much better access to my colleagues in the US, Australia and the
rest of Europe than I ever did while in the UK and I would be very loath
to go back to the inferior *international* networking available in the UK.

Lee's point about the JANET authorities seeing the solution in terms of
OSI protocols is unfortunately true. It will be wonderful when (or is it
if) it happens but the real world is voting for TCP/IP now to be
replaced by some as yet undefined set of protocols which will leap frog
over the OSI stack.
So do us all a favour and open the door into and out of the UK.