IBM / CompuServe / Regional Network Regional Network Regional Network Local Networks / Sprint / Cogent Communications / Nonprofit Supercomputing Company / MCI / Ameritech / Advanced Network Services / Commercial Internet Exchange / Performance Systems International / /
Country
United States / / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Company Expansion / /
Facility
Law University of Illinois / /
IndustryTerm
connectivity or infrastructure / private backbone networks / communication technology / Internet backbone / Internet connectivity / telecommunications industry / communication technologies / backbone networks / owned backbone networks / backbone network / government-run network / Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf / select / telecommunications policy / telecommunications / campus networks / Internet Protocol / community networks / research network / high-speed networking / kesan@law.uiuc.edu / federal networks / backbone services / Internet privatizations / /
Organization
National Research Council / National Science Foundation / U.S. Government / office of Technology Assessment / University of Illinois at Chicago / Very High Speed Backbone Service / NSF’s AUP / office of the Inspector General / Professor College / Congress / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / White House’s office of Science and Technology Policy / Department of Privatization of the Internet / /
Person
Vinton Cerf / Rajiv C. Shah / Leonard Kleinrock / Jay P. Kesan / Al Gore / C. Shah Adjunct / Jay P. Kesan Rajiv / / /
Position
prominent computer scientist / Routing Arbiter / Author / Assistant Professor / official commercial use / /
ProvinceOrState
California / /
Technology
IP / communication technology / supercomputer centers / communication technologies / DNS / gigabit / /
Privatization of the Internet 1 The Privatization of the Internet’s Backbone Network Rajiv C. Shah & Jay P. Kesan Rajiv C. Shah