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 >That's not strictly accurate, unless you're plotting the Internet growth on
 >a logarithmic scale. It was still exponential in July. I don't know 
 >about the OSI growth patterns; however the moral loss of the Janet community
 >to JIPS ought to have sent things into a bit of a slide. Since Janet 
 >was supposed to be an OSI flagship, and since people are only using the OSI
 >side of things when they are forced to at budget-point, this is a major 

please dd'nt use the term "moral"  nthe context of a technical
decision to provide a service requested by users -

the efforts of the JNT to foster real OSI products were gigantic,
however, they were slightly dwarfed by the DoD and DARPA funding the
ARPANET, BSD unix TCP code, buying ciscos for the gulf,. etc etc...

its nothing to do with morals (although ythe moral of the story
is...:-)

 jon