Iljitsch wrote: > The confusion that the ARPAnet supposedly had a military function stems > from the research done by Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation in the > early to mid 1960s. He proposed high-availability packet switched > network for military command and control. in case anyone is interested, Baran's work is on-line at http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/baran.list.html Scott