[11753] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Clinton Adminsitration Corporate Network Socialism?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott W Brim)
Sun Apr 17 12:51:42 1994
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 11:42:31 -0400
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook), com-priv@psi.com
From: Scott W Brim <swb1@cornell.edu>
Gordon, before 1990 we had several proposals for internet mercantile
protocols (not in the IETF that I remember but whole structure under
the IAB was quite different). It's not that people didn't perceive the
usefulness of the communications in those days, it's that the Internet
wasn't extensive enough to make it worth their while.
At 1:42 4/13/94 +0000, Gordon Cook wrote:
>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.
