Inter-ISP/Telco/X.25 security procedures?

Mon Sep 16 18:25:32 UTC 2002

> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:16:24 -0400
> From: Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com>
> Sender: owner-nanog at merit.edu
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> In message <200209161811.g8GIBf7N075220 at noc.mainstreet.net>, Mark Kent writes:
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> >Oh yeah, I should have typed BARRNET, not BBN.
> >Wasn't BARRNET operating on the Stanford campus 
> >prior to 1991?
> 
> Absolutely.  NSFNET kicked off in 1986/1987 and BARRNET was one of the early
> regional networks along with NYSERNET (from which PSI was spun off),
> NEARNET (which was operated by the team that became BBN Planet/Genuity),
> and a handful of others.

Certainly SURANET and CICNET were around. I also remember MIDNET,
NORTHWESTNET, SESQUINET and maybe OARNET as being NSF regionals.
CERFnet was around, but not a regional.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634