[11169] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Wed Mar 23 19:31:19 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 23:07:18 -0600 (CST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, matthew@echo.com, com-priv@psi.com, fidelman@civicnet.org
In-Reply-To: <199403230336.TAA03082@echo.com> from "Matthew Kaufman" at Mar 22, 94 07:36:37 pm
>
> Tools such as Mosaic (IN particular, in fact) can and are operated all
> the time using "login accounts"
> In fact, software to do this with Mosaic was just recently released.
> There are also in development many new tools which provide features
> similar to Mosaic, by having the "host" simply reformat requests
> and send them along to servers all over the Internet.
>
> In my opinion, this is JUST the same as, for instance, using Socks
> or Term,... or communicating using Appletalk or IPX and then having
> the packets translated by a gateway. And ALL of those ought to
> be seen as equivalent to "DIRECT PACKET ACCESS" to the Internet.
No argument.
> I wouldn't be surprised to find major online services doing what Netcom
> is doing / about to do with their "front-end" for the Internet...
> and I want to see them treated the same way I'd be if I let my
> next door neighbor connect to me.
>
> -matthew
Correct. Netcom, in particular, is immune to this problem as they ARE CIX
members. The others I cannot speak to.
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