Talk:Defense Switched Network

Military history: North America / United States

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The text of this article, as created by User:198.26.123.37 on Feb 5, 2004, copies verbatim the information located on the U.S. military website at http://www.disa.mil/gs/dsn/dsn_history.html. According to the corresponding "Security, Privacy, and Accessibility Notice" at http://www.disa.mil/gs/dsn/privacy_stmt.html, "Information presented on DISA pages is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested." While the inclusion of this text in the Wikipedia seems, therefore, to be allowed, it is unclear to me whether the text may be modified without violating the copyright of the DISA. Correspondingly, I have limited my edits to formatting and adding internal links. The article, as it stands, does not seem to warrant a copyvio tag, but I leave it to the community to decide whether or not this page should remain in the wiki. AHM 17:25, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Possible additions[edit]

It would be useful to have a list of DSN prefixes here for reference. Can we do this without violating security restrictions? I think it's open information. tecarr 15:31, 05 Nov 2007 (EDT)

I don't think it would be a security restriction issue, but due to the number of prefixes out there it would probably end up violating Wikipedia's WP:NOT#DIR policy. --StuffOfInterest 22:13, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism[edit]

I removed the link to a critical blog post because it didn't meet the external links criteria. If there are widespread problems with the network, it would be great if someone could write a sourced criticism section. Chazchaz101 (talk) 15:52, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]