lazear@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (07/20/87)
I may have missed something somewhere, but I thought MIL-NET had something to do with MIL-itary, production systems, national defense. I must have been reading the glossy brochures again! Oh, I know ... Military-Industrial-Liaison-NET
lazear@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (07/20/87)
Alan, I would indeed be interested in the details, since there are still parts of DCA touting the eventual closing of the mail bridges and the rehoming of hosts to their proper side. Then there's the issue of dual-homed hosts.... If DCA isn't serious about the architecture they have advertised as the target, then we should eliminate the mail bridges altogether, connect MILNET and ARPANET as one, and improve performance for everyone! Perhaps a changing of the guard at DCA has made past work obsolete, but they need to tell both themselves and the outside world that that is so (if indeed it is so). Walt
PERRY@VAX.DARPA.MIL (Dennis G. Perry) (07/21/87)
Actually, the Milnet and Arpanet used to be the same net. They were split some time ago into the Arpanet, mostly university researchers, and the Milnet, mostly government agencies, not all of which were military. E.g., the DOE national labs are on the milnet. Not all those on the Milnet are operational folks, although most are. There are still a lot of research related folks on the Milnet. As I said earlier, it it no longer clear, except for sponsorship, who get put where. dennis -------
ron@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Ron Natalie) (07/27/87)
The MIL in MILNET means the Military's operational network. Hence, if they want to reliably talk to someone for whatever reason, they put the on the MILNET rather than risk having to deal with the potentially broken experimental ARPANET. -Ron