[11495] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa Losito)
Mon Apr 4 18:39:40 1994
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 12:43:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lisa Losito <lisa@access.digex.net>
To: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
Cc: William Manning <bmanning@is.rice.edu>, poole@magnolia.eunet.ch,
com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404041314.PAA25268@chsun.eunet.ch>
> > > >
> > > > 1. Purpose of the Internet
> > > > The Internet (a global network made up of many smaller
> > > > contributing networks) and its services are intended to
> > > > support open research and education in and among US
> > > > research and instructional institutions, plus research arms of
> > > > for-profit firms when engaged in open scholarly
> > > > communication and research. Use for other purposes, e.g.
> > > > for-profit activity or extensive personal business, is not
> > > > acceptable.
> >
This was an example of CoVis's AUP....maybe somebody should point out to
them the problems we see with this. The IETF could have picked a better
(and less inflammatory) example.
Lisa
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