Re: NANOG/IEPG/ISOC's current role

[rboivie () vnet IBM COM]

Gordon,  I don't have any thoughts to share re: the posting or non-posting
of traffic stats.  I just wanted to correct the point regarding the
termination of the NSFnet backbone service.
Thanks,
Rick Boivie

> OOOPS!  <blush>  you are right.
>
> But, isn't the point two fold?  While NSFnet stats were available for
> another year is anyone going to seriously blame ISOC for not having them on
> display a year after the fact?  They are surely available some where.
> Many reading this list would likely know where in an instant.  I'd turn
> to an Altavista search and to the NSF web stite to find them.
>
> second point.  For a year now nothing has been available and given the
> nature of the new market place, how could one reasonably expect them to
> be available except by looking a through put figures at the MAEs.  MAE
> East in particular.
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Apr 1996 rboivie () VNET IBM COM wrote:
>
> > Gordon,
> > Small point.  The NSFnet backbone service ended on April 30, 1995
> > (not '94).
> > Rick Boivie
> > rboivie () vnet ibm com
> >
> > > commercial internet matured and the federal gov't withdrew.  Last traffic
> > > reports march 1994!?  Of course!  This was the month before the last
> > > gov't funded backbone (NSFnet) was turned off.  Since then the traffic
> > > statistics have been the **proprietary** possessions of Sprint, MCI,
> > > UUNET, ANS, etc.