Changes

In 1982, JNT achieved the first recommendation of the Wells Report to creat a national education and research network after the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) agreed to handover its own proprietary network, '''SERCnet''' to JNT for development into a full-blown national network connecting all universities and Research Councils. The network was named '''JANET''' which became operational in 1984 and it was managed by JNT which was funded partly by SERC and mainly by the Computer Board.

In 1982, JNT achieved the first recommendation of the Wells Report to creat a national education and research network after the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) agreed to handover its own proprietary network, '''SERCnet''' to JNT for development into a full-blown national network connecting all universities and Research Councils. The network was named '''JANET''' which became operational in 1984 and it was managed by JNT which was funded partly by SERC and mainly by the Computer Board.

The Computer Board was dissolved on April 1, 1991 and became the Information Systems Committee (ISC) under the Universities Funding Council. Its primary role is to deal with networking and specialist information services. ISC assumed the funding responsibility for JANET and oversaw the creation of the new company, the '''JNT Association'''. On 1 April 1993, ISC became '''Joint Information Systems Committee''' ([[JISC]]).

The Computer Board was dissolved on April 1, 1991 and became the Information Systems Committee (ISC) under the Universities Funding Council. Its primary role is to deal with networking and specialist information services. ISC assumed the funding responsibility for JANET and oversaw the creation of the new company. On 1 April 1993, ISC became '''Joint Information Systems Committee''' ([[JISC]]).

JNT Association is a fully independent legal entity, publicly by funded JISC which decided that JNT Association should not own trademarks including its own name – that could conceivably be sold elsewhere so it was officially traded as UKERNA. On June 7, 2007, UKERNA was changed to '''Janet(UK)'''.

On December 10, 1993, the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales and the Office of Science and Technology formed the '''JNT Association''',a not-for-profit company funded by JISC traded as UKERNA. Its primary responsibility is to develop and manage JANET and work under a service level agreement with JISC which ensures that the network will be developed and operated with the education, learning and research community in mind.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A6227417 www.bbc.co.uk]</ref>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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