Mike, actually DCA had only responsibility for the ARPANET and MILNET, officially. The rest were the responsibility of the network operators - usually schools and research labs. In 1981 the CSNET project brought up non-DoD components including PhoneNet and the X.25 extension of Internet developed by Univ Wisconsin. This was an NSF-funded initiative.
The first NSFNET backbone came up in 1986 (Dave Mills' fuzzballs). Vint At 10:24 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Michael StJohns wrote: >Umm... ok - 15 years ago. US DOD, Defense Communications Agency under an agreement >with ARPA ran the Internet (all 20-50 networks of it) and its "core routing system". >In fact the internet was actually called the "DOD Internet". It wasn't until around >'87 that a non-government sponsored system (e.g. a system that wasn't sponsored or >under contract to DOD, NSF, DOE...) was connected to the ARPANet/MILNET core. > > >At 08:57 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Ari Ollikainen wrote: > >> Really? >> >> Could you name the entity (and network) that you claim >> centrally controlled "the Internet" a decade ago?
