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Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals
From: Hans-Werner Braun <hwb () rwac ucsd edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:19:07 -0700
It's also worth noting that DECNET was a leading contender for the NSFNET. Sid Karin, director of SDSC, tells the story that he was leaning toward DECNET until he met a taciturn Teutonic network engineer from Ann Arbor who convinced Sid among others that a TCP/IP backbone would work.
You actually do not quite have your story right. Sid used MFENET (Magnetic Fusion Energy) protocols for the SDSCnet (SDSC consortium) satellite network initially. I was also the networking person at the University of Michigan responsible for the UMichigan-SDSCnet connection (with MFENET protocols) at that time (besides other responsibilities). It did work, and SDSC continued to use it despite the NSFNET using IP. Over time SDSC phased MFENET out and IP in, but besides the reponsibility of the taciturn Teutonic network engineer from Ann Arbor for the NSFNET, I don't think he had much to do with the phaseout of the MFENET usage at SDSC. Sid still claims that he is proud of both his MFENET decision as well as the decision to phase it out, as time moved on.
Current thread:
- re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Rob Gutierrez (Jun 03)
- re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals James Lang (Jun 03)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Miguel A.L. Paraz (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Paul Love (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Kevin Oberman (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Erik Sherk (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Kent W. England (Jun 09)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Hans-Werner Braun (Jun 09)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Hans-Werner Braun (Jun 09)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Cathy Wittbrodt (Jun 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Paul Baer (Jun 03)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Curt Howland (Jun 05)
- RE: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Tony Hain (Jun 09)