corporation for research and educational networking

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
CREN

   <body> (CREN) The organisation responsible for providing
   networking service to {BITNET} and {CSNET} users.  CREN was
   formed in October 1989, when {BITNET} and {CSNET} were
   combined under one authority.  {CSNET} is no longer
   operational, but CREN still runs {BITNET}.

   [Still true?]

   (1996-05-17)