NANOG/IEPG/ISOC's current role

Mon Apr 1 23:15:28 UTC 1996

Gordon,
Small point.  The NSFnet backbone service ended on April 30, 1995
(not '94).
Rick Boivie
rboivie at vnet.ibm.com

> commercial internet matured and the federal gov't withdrew.  Last traffic
> reports march 1994!?  Of course!  This was the month before the last
> gov't funded backbone (NSFnet) was turned off.  Since then the traffic
> statistics have been the **proprietary** possessions of Sprint, MCI,
> UUNET, ANS, etc.