WEBCAST THURS: #InternetIndependenceDay marking 25th anniversary of NSFNET decommissioning w/ @edyson @james_a_lewis @rehundt @GaryShapiro @tevslin Andrew Odlyzko - ISOC LIVE NOTICEBOARD

On April 30 2020, at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) Internet elders will gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1995 decommissioning of the NSFNET backbone, following the passage of Al Gore‘s High Performance Computing Act of 1991. This was the moment that the Internet fully transitioned from a government to a private enterprise. A …