you too are right peter, but i thought the government was involved too. and i'll still predict that it will be taken over by the public in the future. 


--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Come Together
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:01 AM
> If you're referencing what is commonly know as
> Internet2" then it
> is actually more of an academic initiative. It's also
> already part of the
> regular Internet, it's how we access the Internet here
> at work.  Biggest
> difference from what most people see is very high speed
> point to point
> connections among the consortium members (and institutions
> that are then
> connected directly to consortium members, as in our case). 
> Here's the "what
> is it" from the consortium web site:
> 
> Internet2 is a consortium being led by 206 universities
> working in
> partnership with industry and government to develop and
> deploy advanced
> network applications and technologies, accelerating the
> creation of
> tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the
> partnership among academia,
> industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in
> its infancy. The
> primary goals of Internet2 are to:
> 
>    - Create a leading edge network capability for the
> national research
>    community
>    - Enable revolutionary Internet applications
>    - Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and
> applications to
>    the broader Internet community.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:41 AM, ken barber
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > there is now a higher level internet being developed
> by the DOD and some
> > more agencies. it is like the old internet intended
> for governments to use,
> > but like the old the new will eventually get taken
> over for public use.
> >
> 
> -- 
> Peter Hunsberger
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