[129620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Sep 14 02:37:30 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1009131725470.21549@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:37:10 +0100
From: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> In the "early internet", let's call that prior to 1990, the hierarchy
>> wasn't price etc, it was:
> During the pre-1990's, I doubt any of the Internet "founders" were thinki=
ng
> of how to pay for networks other than asking for more grant money. =A0ARP=
A and
> friends paid the bills, and asked for things like TOS/COS long before
> DiffServ because the military likes to prioritize
> things for all sorts of reasons besides price.
And let's not forget that the article which came up with the title of
this thread
equates IETF with "Internet Founders" and is talking about the 1990s and
the introduction of diffserv.
--Michael Dillon
