Gordon, I don't have any thoughts to share re: the posting or non-posting of traffic stats. I just wanted to correct the point regarding the termination of the NSFnet backbone service. Thanks, Rick Boivie

OOOPS! <blush> you are right.

But, isn't the point two fold? While NSFnet stats were available for another year is anyone going to seriously blame ISOC for not having them on display a year after the fact? They are surely available some where. Many reading this list would likely know where in an instant. I'd turn to an Altavista search and to the NSF web stite to find them.

second point. For a year now nothing has been available and given the nature of the new market place, how could one reasonably expect them to be available except by looking a through put figures at the MAEs. MAE East in particular.

On Mon, 1 Apr 1996 rboivie@VNET.IBM.COM wrote:

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Gordon, Small point. The NSFnet backbone service ended on April 30, 1995 (not '94). Rick Boivie rboivie@vnet.ibm.com

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commercial internet matured and the federal gov't withdrew. Last traffic reports march 1994!? Of course! This was the month before the last gov't funded backbone (NSFnet) was turned off. Since then the traffic statistics have been the **proprietary** possessions of Sprint, MCI, UUNET, ANS, etc.