[11075] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Collet)
Mon Mar 21 18:45:20 1994
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 07:27:46 -0500
From: Bob Collet <rcollet@sprintlink.net>
To: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>,
com-priv@psi.com
Erik:
not true! SprintLink is engineered for aggregate traffic. Capacity is not a
problem at all.
Bob Collet
Sprint
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> From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
> Subject: What is an "Internet reseller"?
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>
> I'm sure everyone here has heard of America Online. They are selling
> Internet access too. It started with just E-mail, but (if they haven't
> already) they will be providing WAIS, Gopher, WWW, and FTP service to
> their customers, all umpty-thousand of them. Telnet to come later.
>
> The amusing thing is that the customers will not be getting SLIP/PPP;
> these services will be delivered over a proprietary communications and
> graphical interface technology. Ping will not work.
>
> Is America Online reselling Internet service?
>
> How does this differ from shell access on a terminal dialup UNIX host?
>
> Why do some of you persist in believing that handing out IP addresses
> makes it qualitatively different? Bandwidth is bandwidth.
>
> This whole mess comes about because NSP's will not engineer their
> networks to carry the total aggregate inputs - too expensive. So, they
> guess at an average usage per customer, and then frantically restrict
> anything that violates that assumption, with lots of handwaving.
>
> Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
>
