[68] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Fee for Service Internet Traffic [was Re: Information ...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent England)
Wed Oct 31 14:07:45 1990
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 13:50:19 est
From: kwe@buitb.bu.edu (Kent England)
To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com, com-priv@psi.com
> There are a couple of folks already accepting Mastercard/Visa/etc for payment
> for a variety of services that have some part of the transaction occur across
> the NSFnet...
> Who knows you might actually even be able to order those nasty ISO standards,
> and have them delivered across the net.
> --
That is the sort of traffic that ANSnet is set up to carry,
under the assumption that this sort of fee-for-service traffic will
not be carried on the NSFnet proper. I have also heard of the idea
that book publishers might deliver printable books (or multi-media
books) across ANSnet under a fee-for-service arrangement.
--Kent
