[12160] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: No Wonder they are calling it the Infobahn - VBNS & commercial use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sat May 7 19:16:50 1994
Date: Sat, 7 May 94 18:00:10 EDT
From: stpeters@bird.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: barney@databus.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
>At the risk of seeming foolishly naive, it seems to me that the issue
>for the T3 net was whether the inability of the RS6000's for a long
>time to use the full T3 caused congestion, often or at all. If it did
>not, then there was no penalty whatsoever for the delay in coming up to
>(full) speed. Is the actual net traffic, even now, up to the point
>where any T3 is over 50% used by other than bandwidth-test traffic? My
>understanding is that even when IETF-Meeting MBone traffic causes
>congestion, that's on slower links, not on the backbone T3's. Will
>somebody correct me if that's wrong?
>
>If the above argument is valid, then it should apply to the ATM net as well.
Barney, shhhh - quiet. Steve's got Cook arguing for walling off
NSF's network, whether they're using it or not. Once upon a time
that would've been called an NRN, and Cook would've been against it.
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
