I envisage a fancy-dress gathering in Ann Arbor and D.C. to party, get blitzed, and then watch as ENSSes get turned off, and as a big silver ball descends to mark the end of the NSFNET backbone service...

BTW, out of curiosity, will the ENSSes get turned off, just shutdown(8)ed, or have the interfaces ifconfig-ed off?

Gee. I hoped each ENSS was gong to get an Ignite packet to /dev/thermite. <sigh> -s