[5088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Tue Oct 8 17:45:42 1996
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 17:40:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610082101.QAA12502@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Sounds great. It all sounded great until it got to the part about "federal
funding". I, for one, have a problem with my tax dollars going towards
some professor being able to gawk at another professor in a
videoconference.
-BD
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Paul J. Zawada wrote:
> It's a way for Universities to talk to _each_other_ at higher speeds without
> having to pay for the *ahem* value "added" by the Internet. Higher-Ed
> institutions want to talk to each other at higher speeds but don't
> necessarily want pay for their undergrads' (or professors' for that matter)
> ability to download nudie-GIFs 20x faster. So while there's no more money
> in the budget for faster Internet connectivity, many university provosts
> would be willing to spend more money for bandwidth if it were used for
> "nobler" pursuits. Basically, they want the Internet they had 6 years ago
> only faster.
>
> Internet II, if it happens, would be Higher-Ed's intranet.
