[1165] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Forwarded from PACS-L Digest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stev knowles)
Mon Aug 12 13:21:14 1991
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 11:36:20 -0400
To: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
From: stev@ftp.com (stev knowles)
Cc: <ittai@shemesh.ans.net>, nren-discuss@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
Just for some context to what "working with" has meant. There have
been a series of "invitation only" meetings that ANS has held, in which
all parties had to sign confidentiality agreements in advance to attend.
Some of these meetings had multiple ANS/IBM lawyers present to provide
support.
Neither Alternet nor PSINet were ever invited to these meetings.
These meetings have resulted in contracts which ANS has distributed
to some. For instance Infonet. Long standing members of the
community like Alternet and PSINet have not been given copies of
these contracts, despite having requested so.
Marty
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ANS has been working with many of these players over the past eleven
months to develop a set of agreements. At this week's FARnet meeting
in Big Sky, Montana, Al Weis will announce the results of these
discussions. More details to follow.
and ANS wonders why they have such a bad name in the community. all these
"closed door meetings" with "business relationships" appearing.
smells pretty bad to me. i wont go into the "flaming" some people have
complained about. why bother? ANS is going to do what they want to.
too bad.
