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From: rsc@merit.edu (Richard Conto)
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Subject: Re: Internet: The origins
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Date: 22 Oct 90 15:02:09 GMT
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In article <1990Oct21.221104.11211@rice.edu> dboyes@titan.rice.edu (David Boyes) writes:
>In article <4775@tahoe.unr.edu> malc@tahoe.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
>Excuse me, but let's keep our folklore straight. Merit, the current babysitter
>of this fine collection of high-speed toys we call the NSFnet does a quite
>good job. It might surprise you that Merit is a joint venture between IBM and
>MCI. 

Inasmuch as the Merit Computer Network is a joint venture, it is a joint
venture of various state supported universities (in the State of Michigan.) But
it is involved in a joint venture with MCI and IBM, that being the NSFnet.
Merit's been around a while as a regional network. Long before the style in
naming networks was XXXXnet... (but now it's considering calling it's Michigan
operations MichNet. Sigh.)

>Sigh. See above. If anything, the association with the NSFnet has prompted
>IBM to *open* up their networking strategies. NetView now groks SNMP -- 
>something unheard of in the traditional IBM way of doing things. The current
>NSFnet NSS switching units are controlled by NetView. Instead of bashing IBM,
>lets encourage them to keep up the network glasnost.

I wish I could comment on the above paragraph, but I'm involved in other parts
of Merit's business, so I really don't know about NSS control by NetView. 

--- Richard