Re: A revolution in Internet point-of-view - Was Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)
Dave Crocker via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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On 4/30/2026 4:55 PM, vinton cerf wrote: > To add to Dave's story Since MCI Mail wound up being relevant to Internet history, when Vint used MMDF to interconnect with Internet mail, I'll add to his addition. MCI Mail was built using a collection of vendors for different parts of the system. (HP had the remote laster printers.) Six months before the scheduled public demo was the first meeting, with all the vendors in the same room. Vint got up to greet everyone and set the stage. He said we did not have much time but we were going to meet the September deadline. Then he said that if anything stopped us -- not that it would, but if it did -- it would be a connector. As I recall, that middle-of-the-night-before-the-demo problem that Vint described turned out to be a connector. d/ -- Dave Crocker [email protected] bluesky: @dcrocker.bsky.social mast: @[email protected] +1.408.329.0791 Volunteer, Silicon Valley Chapter Northern California Coastal Region Information & Planning Coordinator American Red Cross [email protected] -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history