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Subject: Re: Apple on ARPANet consensus
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 14:55:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 18 14:55:21 1984
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From: Dick Edmiston
To clarify an earlier message, Apple is <> on the internet.
They are moving from being a CSNET PhoneNet host to being a CSNET
X25Net host, which indeed will give them full internet functionality.
Other sites active on the info-mac list will be going through
this move, too: we are now working with Dartmouth, for example.
Since conversion to X25Net is happening with increasing frequency, let
me describe the process a bit. We here at the CSNET CIC help
coordinate all the activities required to make this come together,
including internet access permissions from DARPA, assigning a CSNET
PDN internet number, notifying the Arapnet NIC what the internet host
table entries should be, providing the host software, sometimes even
ordering the X25 line (but not in this case), and other related
activities. Most such tasks have long lead times, and getting
everything to come together at exactly the same time is not possible.
What happened this time? The NIC host table appeared promptly (thank
you), the permissions are in place, the X.25 line is in, but Apple has
not yet installed the host software. If there is going to be much
more delay, we will get the NIC to temporarily remove the host table
entry for Apple. I am sorry if our poor timing has inconvenienced any
one.
Moral: coordination is hard! But in all, you are just right: having
Apple up on the internet will be worth it!
Dick