At 5:57 PM 5/27/97, Kent W. England wrote:

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Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks? Can you fix this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks.

Name Region NOC was or is at Now

Merit Michigan U Mich

This should probably read: MichNet Michigan Ann Arbor still independent --MichNet is owned and managed by Merit. --Merit is a non-profit governed by its members -- 11 state universities in Michigan. --The NOC has always been and still is in Ann Arbor, but it started out as the Merit NOC which manged MichNet, CICNet, NSFNET and UMnet (the Universtiy of Michigan's campus network), then CICNet took its NOC business off to OSU/ATT, then the NOC moved from Merit to ANS (but it stayed in the same room, later it stayed with ANS, but moved to a new location still in Ann Arbor), CICNet came back, then the Univ. of Michigan created a new NOC in the same room where the old NOC had been before ANS moved it, the new UMich NOC provided services for UMich, MichNet, Merit's RA activities, and CICNet. The ANS NOC is still in Ann Arbor, but is completely separate from the UMich NOC. The original T1 NSFNET attachment in Ann Arbor served both MichNet and CICNet. So did the NSFNET T3 when it showed up later. -Jeff