[11679] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Clinton Adminsitration Corporate Network Socialism?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Wed Apr 13 13:27:12 1994
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:17:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9404130142.aa00504@pandora.sf.ca.us>
On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Gordon Cook wrote:
> Second: an observation. I had a converssation just within the last hour
> with someone who has been involved in the internet for a lot longer than
> I. he agreed that as recently as 1990 or 1991, if there were a perceived
> need for a new protocol like the internet mercantile protocols, several
> internet engineers would have used the regular IETF standards process to
> get the job done. Their employers would have continued to pay their
> salaries. They would not have come to the federal government for a handout.
>
Gordon,
to be fair, its not quite that simple: many of those employers were/are
receiving government contracts precisely to work on Internet engineering
activities (to cite a few: BBN, GTE, MITRE, SRI, lots of universities)
Miles
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