[1576] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet paranoia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Manavendra K. Thakur)
Thu Nov 14 14:58:37 1991
To: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
Cc: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com>, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 10 Nov 91 07:40:55 -0500.
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 14:57:08 EST
From: "Manavendra K. Thakur" <thakur@zerkalo.harvard.edu>
>>>>> On Sun, 10 Nov 91 07:40:55 EST, Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov> said:
> While offering an instant, attractive, and locally optimum fix, an
> Internet/INREN Balkanized by a proliferation of VPNs - connected as
> Ken suggests only by Sneakernet or strong and well-policed gateways
> so as to allow only approved traffic to pass - poses I think a real
> threat to the intellectual health not only of the individual Mission
> communities but to the larger Internet/INREN family of which we are
> all members, and whose present health and vigor are due in large
> part to the very openness which now fuels folks' worries.
> Whether space scientists, nuclear physicists, or MILNET clients, I
> think the creation of VPNs should be resisted as a matter of
> principle, adopted only when there is no other solution, and ditched
> as soon as technology provides other ways to solve legitimate
> concerns.
> -s
Hear hear! Now THIS is the kind of rhetoric (and policies) I want to
see more of from our government officials.
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