http://www.uni-mainz.de/~langc/internet_history.html
>In 1985, Dennis Jennings came from Ireland to spend a year at NSF leading the
>NSFNET program. He worked with the community to help NSF make a critical
>decision - that TCP/IP would be mandatory for the NSFNET program. When
>Steve Wolff took over the NSFNET program in 1986, he recognized the need for
>a wide area networking infrastructure to support the general academic and
>research community, along with the need to develop a strategy for establishing such
>infrastructure on a basis ultimately independent of direct federal funding. Policies
>and strategies were adopted (see below) to achieve that end.
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