[10] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: BARRNET and transitive grief
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Wed Oct 17 11:48:34 1990
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 10:47:14 EDT
From: Ittai Hershman <ittai@shemesh.gba.nyu.edu>
To: Dan Schlitt <dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Cc: amanda@visix.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 2 Oct 90 09:00:18 -0400
Rather than funding an individual or an academic department, funding
could be allocated (in voucher form) to an institution (i.e. to the
head of the institution who would in most cases delegate
responsibility to an appropriate individual/group/department).
The Internet depends not only on inter-institution/network
infrastructure, but also on an infrastructure within each member
institution. It defeats the purpose of the Internet if only one small
part of the institution is connected -- which is indeed what occurred
during the ARPAnet years.
It is true that institutions which "can't get their act together" will
undergo some unpleasant politics, but they will need to grapple with
this issue sooner or later.
-Ittai
PS: When I use the word "institution" I mean it in its broadest terms.
Substitute "university", "college", "company", "firm", "agency",
etc. as appropriate.
