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Re: The fall of Bitnet

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From: Michael R. Gettes
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 16:57
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On Tue, 27 Feb 90 16:06:56 +0100 Alain FONTAINE (Postmaster - NAD) said:
>Before I get flamed for what I did no say, let me restate what I said in
>the beginning  : I am considering  the *long* term, and  I do understand
>that NJE-IP was needed to rapidly  fix some real congestion problems. So
>this is not a critique for the developpers of NJE-IP, who of course were
>not the developpers of NJE, who in turn are probably not to be condemned
>given the  time when work  started on it. You  are of course  welcome to
>flame me on anything else....                        /AF

Alain, I see nothing in your mail that deserves flaming. I find your
line of thought quite correct. My personal opinion is that the important
services provided by NJE style services should be ported to the
Internet. I personally believe that, in the very long term, NJE as
a protocol for internetworking will not be needed. I believe these
services will be incorporated into TCP/OSI applications and
the world will eventually speak the same language (swahili).

/mrg
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 11:57:35 EST
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Subject:      Re: The fall of Bitnet
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