[members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +0100, Arjan van der Oest said:
> 
>>> (considering the fact that governments themselves are not capable of
>>> running anything but a gray-cheese-with-a-dial telephone network
>> 
>> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run
>> network...
> 
> And let's face it - the Arpa/Milnet was a test network, not a production
> network.  

It may have started as a research network, but was very much used for production activities by late 70's and early 80's.

--Ron
(Site coordinator for Arpanet IMP #3)