lazear@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (07/20/87)
Can someone please explain why TWG will be homed on the MILNET instead of the ARPANET? Somewhere the MIL in MILNET must have gotten redefined! Walt Lazear
PERRY@VAX.DARPA.MIL (Dennis G. Perry) (07/21/87)
I suppose the reason the TWG will be homed on the Milnet instead of the Arpanet is that the sponsor suggested the Milnet. Remember that someone in the government pay for every connection to the Milnet or the Arpanet. The Arpanet cost me about $3500 per port connection per month. I am not sure what the Milnet connections cost. Yes, there is a fuzzing of the lines between Milnet and Arpanet. As turnover at the DDN PMO more and more of the history of the Arpanet and the reason for the split into the Milnet and Arpanet is lost, and therefore the definition of why each exists is lost. A strong tendency exists already to consider them as equal nets, with little distinction between them or little appreciation of what the experimental Arpanet can do for the operational Milnet. dennis -------
gross@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG (Phill Gross) (07/23/87)
Dennis, I was told by one of our DDN planners just a few days ago that Arpanet was most definitely not considered to be part of the DDN. I pointed that most of the DDN transition charts I've seen show many nets, including Arpanet, merging into an internet called DDN. He assured me, however, that when all is done, Arpanet will not be part of DDN. I remain puzzled. Now I guess the next question is- is Arpanet really an experimental network for network research or an operational network for use by researchers? Phill