[11288] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Options (was Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Mon Mar 28 10:54:26 1994
To: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 07:50:59 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403270202.AA04651@swan-song.> from "Dick St.Peters" at Mar 26, 94 09:02:25 pm
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
>
> There are only two possible states: 1) every provider is selling
> guaranteed connectivity to every Internet customer, or 2) no provider
> is selling guaranteed connectivity to every Internet customer.
>
> If the private sector can only come up with #2, we will wind up with
> regulated utilities providing #1
>
As you suspect currently -everybody- is selling #2. However I don't know
of any comparable case of #1 even in the case of the current phone system.
Just an example: I assume GE purchases X.400 connectivity from an X.400
ADMD (probably GEIS), do they guarantee connectivity to every X.400 ADMD
in the world? I'm sure they don't (since I know at least half a dozen
ADMD's that don't have connections to GEIS/MARK400).
Simon
