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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
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Subject: Re: Internet routing Europe - USA -} Europe...
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Date: 7 Sep 90 16:01:04 GMT
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George,

 >I bet 90% of all UK universities run BOTH in parallel internally already.

about 78.3 % actually, the rest run DECNET more than colour boox.

 >Anybody taking bets?

no - its happening already...

 >Anybody counting how many "oooooh so naughty" IP tunnels already run?

actually, 6 known already to exist...

 >Anybody asked PSI or any of the other commercial IP networks to cost
 >a service in the UK?

yes, actually, imperial college london...me, and a few others...

 >Stop fussing. in 10 years it'll seem a joke. Bayonet beat Edison Screw 

in 10 years time, we'll be arguing over whether 53 bytes in the Wider
United States of Europe, or 47 in the Higher Definiton Televisual Empire of
the East were the best choice for ATM cell size:-)

but seriously, there is a lot of operational stuff to sort out, and
ripe people are the right people and are doing it - thats what a lot
of the temperature rising is about...

have patience, geo.

 jon