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  2. From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
  4. Subject: Re: Future network
  5. Message-ID: <38960@hoptoad.uucp>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 19:46:27 GMT
  7. References: <1ea29kINNst4@uwm.edu> <Nov.17.10.59.31.1992.6109@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
  8.     <1992Nov17.165825.22696@bradley.bradley.edu>
  9. Sender: news@hoptoad.uucp
  10. Reply-To: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
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  12. Organization: Cygnus Support, Mountain View CA; Phone +1 415 903 1400
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  15. In-reply-to: stone@bradley.bradley.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:58:25 GMT
  16.  
  17. In article <1992Nov17.165825.22696@bradley.bradley.edu> stone@bradley.bradley.edu (Steve Stone) writes:
  18.  
  19.    I think he is referring to the gigabit backbone for the Internet/NREN.
  20.    It is already being tested between some supercomputing sites.
  21.  
  22.    I don't know where to find more info., but I would guess you could
  23.    point your WAIS at internet-documents.src, or ietf-docs.src or
  24.    netinfo.src or netinfo-docs.src and start finding some things
  25.    that have been put out by the Internet Engineering Task Force. 
  26.  
  27. For a booklet on the whole High Performance Computing and
  28. Communications act, write to
  29.  
  30.   Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
  31.   Committee on Physical, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences
  32.   c/o National Science Foundation
  33.   Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate
  34.   1800 G Street, NW
  35.   Washington, DC  20550
  36.  
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  38. Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan@cygnus.com
  39. Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA                              +1 415 903 1400
  40.                                                              His name's Avery!
  41.