[11261] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS and the CIX - have they really connected? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willard Dawson)
Sun Mar 27 14:26:38 1994
From: wdawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson)
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 15:33:04 GMT
Apparently-To: com-priv@psi.com
nelson@crynwr.COM (Russell Nelson) writes:
>Okay, what if I run the ``term'' program? It runs a reliable,
>byte-sequenced protocol over a serial line that is NOT IP, yet it
>allows people to open TCP ports on their local machine. Someone could
>easily write a Winsock or "TCP" stack that runs over term. Everyone
>using ``term'' is using the same IP address (that of the server), yet
>everyone is in a different place.
>As far as they're concerned, they have IP access to the net. Is this not
>the same as IP resale??
Term is not the only solution of this sort. Consider also xremote,
which is implemented in firmware on certain X-stations.
