Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

[Ron Broersma <ron () nosc mil>]

On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +0100, Arjan van der Oest said:
>
> > > (considering the fact that governments themselves are not capable of
> > > running anything but a gray-cheese-with-a-dial telephone network
> >
> > Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run
> > network...
>
> And let's face it - the Arpa/Milnet was a test network, not a production
> network.  

It may have started as a research network, but was very much used for production activities by late 70's and early 80's.

--Ron
(Site coordinator for Arpanet IMP #3)