boss@ebone.net writes:
To the European IP community,
This is to inform you that today, Sunday 26 September 1992, the final link of the initially defined EBONE, the London-Montpellier link, was put in place. The EBONE is now complete as a resilient pan-European IP backbone.
September 1, 1991, after an initiative by Kees Neggers, a small group of people gathered for the first time, in an office building outside Amsterdam, to see if it could be possible to build a pan-European IP backbone. Today, 390 days later, the full backbone is up and running. Without all the voluntary efforts put in this would never have been possible. As a result we today see one of the worlds technically most advanced backbones in Europe.
I must admit I have never seen a group with so much expertise gathered around the table and with so much enthusiasm in making this knowledge serve the European networking user community. I will by this give my deep gratitude to all those people involved in the fulfillment of the first pan-European IP backbone.
To make it short:
WE MADE IT!!! ========================
There is some bottles of champaign waiting in Paris :-)
See you there all of you,
Bernhard Stockman. Chair of the EBONE Action Team.
Belated, but no less heartfelt, congratulations from NORDUnet. Regards, Peter V.