chin@hpcmm7.HP.COM (fred chin) (06/21/91)
I had some one ask me about Internet. The question they asked had something to do with a sponsor. I had no idea what a sponsor is in relations to internet. If someone knows what this person is talking about, can you please enlighten me? Thanks, Fred Chin chin@hpcmm7.corp.hp.com
barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (06/22/91)
In article <16130001@hpcmm7.HP.COM> chin@hpcmm7.HP.COM (fred chin) writes: >I had some one ask me about Internet. The question they asked >had something to do with a sponsor. I had no idea what a sponsor >is in relations to internet. Perhaps they were confusing the Internet with the old Arpanet. Arpanet was funded by DARPA, and was intended for use by DARPA contractors. In order to conect to the Arpanet, an organization had to be sponsored by their DARPA contractee. There may still be something similar on the Milnet, for connecting contractors to the net. However, these days, most commercial organizations connect to the Internet through a regional research/educational networking provider or a commercial service such as PSInet or Alternet. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
markw@gvlf8-e.gvl.unisys.com (Mark H. Weber) (06/27/91)
In article <16130001@hpcmm7.HP.COM> chin@hpcmm7.HP.COM (fred chin) writes: > >I had some one ask me about Internet. The question they asked >had something to do with a sponsor. I had no idea what a sponsor >is in relations to internet. > Perhaps the person is referring to an "internet forwarder", an internet site which is willing to act as a gateway between the internet and a uucp site. This is required for uucp sites which want to register in a "real" domain such as "com", "org", or "us". A "mail exchanger" (MX) nameserver record is then created, showing that internet mail for the uucp site is to be sent to the "internet forwarder", which forwards it to the uucp site. Mark