Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:6246 comp.misc:10362 Path: utzoo!utdoe!ontmoh!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!theory.tn.cornell.edu!swb From: swb@chumley.tn.cornell.edu (Scott Brim) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: Internet: The origins Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 90 15:34:07 GMT References: <1990Oct14.055739.7971@nmt.edu> Sender: news@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Distribution: na Organization: /mu/swb/.organization Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: pefsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu's message of 14 Oct 90 05:57:39 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: chumley.tn.cornell.edu In article <1990Oct14.055739.7971@nmt.edu> pefsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu (Paul Ford) writes: The reason I ask is that I recently read that the administration of Internet was going to be taken over by IBM and another company who's name I forget at the moment. Since nobody else has answered to this rumor, I will. I can't think of any source for it except the formation of ANS. Until last month NSFNET (a significant part of the Internet backbone, but by no means all of it) was managed and operated by Merit, with funding from NSF and with IBM and MCI as its partners. There is now a non-profit company called ANS (Advanced Network Systems -- might be "Networking") which is held jointly by the three of them, and NSF has agreed to have Merit subcontract to ANS for NSFNET management and operation. Merit is Merit Computer Network, Inc., which got its start as the Michigan state educational network, back in about 1972. By the way, in response to someone else's posting: IBM is very well-connected into the Internet at at least three of its sites. One of the connections is (experimentally) at 45Mbps. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott W. Brim swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Manager, Networking Program voice: +1-607-254-8766 624 Engineering & Theory Center Bldg Cornell University Theory Center Ithaca, NY, USA 14853-3801