[11614] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Clinton Adminsitration Corporate Network Socialism?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Sirbu)
Mon Apr 11 15:44:29 1994
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 10:23:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook), com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9404110215.aa08723@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Excerpts from internet.com-priv: 11-Apr-94 Clinton Adminsitration Corp..
by Gordon Cook@path.net
>
> NOTE the statement:
> CommerceNet has an initial
> investment of $12 million with **half of its funding** to come from
government.
>
> Do I hear this right? Someone in the Clinton Administration is
> dumping $6 million in tax dollars into a scheme to support commercial
services
> by these wealthy companies over the internet?
>
> What public interest is being served by doing this? Did these companies tell
> Mike Nelson, Tom Kalil, Larry Irving and Al Gore they were so poor they could
> NOT explore commerce on the network unless taxpayers footed half the bill!
> ??
There is still significant R&D work, much of it related to standards,
which must be done before the Internet can be used for SECURE commercial
interactions. This includes development of security enhanced versions
of WWW servers, integration of Electronic Data Interchange with Privacy
Enhanced Mail, development of EDI standards for use in the high tech
industries, etc.
My understanding is that the government support is not paying for
networking services, which will be acquired in the commerical
marketplace, but rather for the development of new application-oriented
technologies which will make the use of the Internet practical for a
larger range of commercial purposes.
Marvin Sirbu
