Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:55:43 +0100 From: Adam Waite <awaite@tuenti.com>
Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network...
Not since 1992......what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc.
While ESnet is funded by the Department of Energy and they certainly define the strategic policy of ESnet, they don't make design decisions nor get involved with the technical end of the network. ESnet is run by the University of California's Berkeley Lab under contract to the DOE. This may sound like hair splitting, but it is really very different from Fednets like NIPR and SIPR (and many, many others) including the Department of Energy's own DOEnet. Note that DOEnet is used for DOE business operations while ESnet is use support DOE funded research. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751