Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bbn.com!papaya.bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Question about Internet access Message-ID: <3604@litchi.bbn.com> Date: 2 Jun 91 21:26:59 GMT Article-I.D.: litchi.3604 References: <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp> <7679@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Distribution: na Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc. Lines: 16 In <7679@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes: >provided that non-research traffic is limited to NEARnet itself. It >was created to provide high-speed 10M microwave links which didn't >exist before the last couple of years... NEARnet and Alternet now/will soon have a leased line, so commercial traffic can be sent around. It's not limited to just academic and research organizations. Nearnet was created because when the NSFNet proposal went around, everyone in the area waited for MIT to sign up to create the regional network in this area. MIT was busy building Athena at that time, so ... the ball got dropped. /r$, who has worked with the BBN NEARnet folks (they're in the same department), but is not a member of the group. -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.