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Re: History of private peering and exchanges?
- From: Miles Fidelman
- Date: Fri Feb 23 09:13:48 2001
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> In the beginning, of course, there was the ARPANET.
>
> Then there was the NSFNET. The NAPs were the first recognizable
> exchange points, with AUPs. NAPs were linked by VBNS.
I think you left out a few intermediate steps like:
- MILNET and the ARPANET-MILNET Mailbridge gateways.
- The Wideband Net
- CSnet
- The NASA Science Internet
- The various supercomputer-center centric networks (e.g. JVNCnet)
Miles Fidelman
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