[11211] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Fri Mar 25 13:45:08 1994
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 13:10:50 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Simon Poole's message of Wed, 23 Mar 1994 08:06:38 +0100 (MET) <199403230708.IAA04122@chsun.eunet.ch>
>John Stracke writes:
>>
>> >For AOL and CompuServe $10k is small change, and they are in a position
>> >where they can negotiate favorable settlement anyway.
>>
>> I'd disagree. The online services want to get to the Net; nobody on
>> the Net is particularly hot for the onlines. The difference is that
>> only exception is email (and many would rather see those people
>
>I can assure you that it would cause an upheavel if we lost e-mail
>connectivity to CompuServe.
Ah, but CI$ doesn't need full IP connectivity to get full email
connectivity; all they have to do is buy IP (or uucp, or...) service
and get their mail forwarded.
I *can* see someone who sells some interactive service over IP wanting
to be able to sell to the customers of the onlines. Of course, with
the interfaces the onlines currently have, it'd have to be something
that could run over a straight telnet or FTP session. But such things
are still regrettably rare.
> They only have to procede in an intelligent
>fashion, pick off the NSP's one by one and they would get the bilateral
>agreements.
I'd bet the effort of doing this, and doing it again for each new
provider that came online, would come to more than $10k. I don't
think there's *anybody* with enough weight to throw around to be able
to make this kind of demand. About the only one that comes to mind is
ANS, and we all know how that turned out. ;-)
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