jhenders@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) (09/30/90)
Has anyone else read the recent Abernathy article reprinted in CUD 2.05 yet. It seems to be up to his usual low standard. It describes a new company being formed to bring "Fortune 500 management" to the Internet. One quote that particularlly stuck out for me was how the Internet has " become a frequent companion to controversy ". Now is it just me, or does it seem like the only controversy lately about the Internet been Joe Abernathy's articles? You'll be happy to hear that the "computer network matrix" has become the " favored arena for hackers ". Also Joe reports, the " IBM syle " management plans to bring " day to day management and monitoring to the network " and bring the " first formal fee structure on the network " John Henders Vancouver,B.C. On Usenet:jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca ...ubc-cs!van-bc!jhenders
dormer@cs.purdue.EDU (John Dormer) (10/01/90)
As a friend of mine was telling me the other day, when they told people on DARAPANet to stop doing non-research related things, network traffic dropped off a lot. I guess it was a large percentage change, or it wouldn't be worth remembering. All of a sudden there were no more personal messages, and the fact that it was not used by many for pure research became evident. People also moved to other channels (read "paper mail") to do real work because it may have been hard not to say "Tell your family 'hi' for me" etc inbetween pages of research. The lesson is that if you don't let people do what they want with a thing like this, they probably won't use it, or at best will only use it when they have to. IMHO, I don't think the people in the government realize what a powerful tool for me to learn new things the USENET groups which ride on the Internet have been. There are many thousands of people who will come through this university after me. I hope they will have the access to the land of the Net as I do. Only hope and time will tell. John Dormer dormer@medusa.cs.purdue.edu
ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan &) (10/01/90)
In article <2221@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
John> Has anyone else read the recent Abernathy article reprinted in CUD 2.05
John> yet. It seems to be up to his usual low standard. It describes a new company
John> being formed to bring "Fortune 500 management" to the Internet. One quote that
John> particularlly stuck out for me was how the Internet has " become a frequent
John> companion to controversy ". Now is it just me, or does it seem like the only
John> controversy lately about the Internet been Joe Abernathy's articles?
John> You'll be happy to hear that the "computer network matrix" has become
John> the " favored arena for hackers ". Also Joe reports, the " IBM syle "
John> management plans to bring " day to day management and monitoring to the
John> network " and bring the " first formal fee structure on the network "
John>
I did not read the article, but I did find this on my desk the other day.
(Please excuse any typos as it is still early and I am not yet fully awake.
Grammatical errors have been reproduced as found. :-)
IBM US News Bulletin
Dateline - September 18, 1990
IBM, MERIT AND MCI FORM NEW ORGANIZATION TO EXPAND NATIONAL COMPUTER
SUPERHIGHWAY
IBM, MCI Communications Corporation, and Merit, Inc., a consortium of eight
Michigan universities, has announced the establishment of Advanced Network
and Services, Inc. (ANS), a new company that will help propel high-speed
computer networking into the next century for the nation's research and
education communities.
The new not-for-profit organization will manage and operate the federally
funded National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) backbone, under
subcontract to Merit, as well as provide a broad spectrum of networking
services to researchers and educators in universities, federal laboratories
and the private sector. These services range from basic network monitoring
to complete networking connectivity and support. ANS will begin to connect
additional educational, industrial and government institutions to the
nation's largest public computer superhighway at speed up to 45 megabits per
second.
ANS is being established to help build and expand current networking
capabilities to meet the skyrocketing deman by the nation's scientists,
engineers and academics for high-speed networking.
The goals of ANS are:
* To assist in the expansion of the existing national network so that it
broadly serves the research and education community.
* To increase the speed and capability of the network, maintaining it at
the leading edge of technology.
* To provide the highest quality network and services in helping to advance
research and education.
IBM and MCI are providing ANS with initial funding, as well as leading edge
technology. Merit, Inc. will add its expertise in network operations,
engineering and planning, in addition to network information services. IBM,
MCI and Merit have been partners in NSFNET since 1987.
Headquaters for ANS are in Elmsford, Ney York.
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