At 1:21 -0500 3/13/98, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

I was just enjoying myself reading through the notes from previous NANOGs, and there is a reference in one:

from http://www.academ.com/nanog/feb1997/welcome.html

"NANOG started as the NSFNET Regional Techs meeting in 1988. In 1994 during the privatization of the Internet, NANOG evolved from the NSFNET Regional Techs meetings. The purpose of both groups was to provide a forum for the exchange of information on the operation of the Internet."

So, my question is, are there any notes for the meetings from the Regional Techs meeting? Just curious.

I don't think there was ever anything formal. I imagine a few folks could dig around and come up with their personal notes. Although as I think about it, I kind of remember the Merit folks videotaping at least one of the meetings in the north campus union building - but that was a large number of all nighters ago so who knows how faulty my recollection might be. (It was well before MBone days which started at the San Diego IETF I think).

After reading these notes, we've come a *long* way.

Well, the meetings are certainly quite a bit larger now - like an order of magnitude. (but that's slower growth than the Internet). Some of the challenges are the same, they just take a different form. We were certainly much more cooperative - not that there weren't regular disagreements, but we certainly had a stronger sense of shared fate since there wasn't overlap in geographical coverage (typically) and we were facing pretty much the same issues across the board. dave