[1588] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Fri Nov 22 18:15:24 1991
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 18:11:53 EST
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
To: cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us, com-priv@psi.com, nren-discuss@psi.com
One is tempted to say the better way would be to examine and relax
the restrictions that currently exist. The commercial packet carriers
impose no restrictions except as they are required by use of
federal facilities and interpretations of the liable laws.
If MCC routes via the NSFNET and/or has traffic which terminates
in that (and if they don't their net is rather useless for business
use in the technical arena) then they will have the same problems
Dave
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In-Reply-To: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow's message of Fri, 22 Nov 91 11:35:20
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Subject: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?
Reply-To: cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu
I can think of one reason why MCC is doing this -- MCC is a consortium
so they might think having their own internet with no usage
restrictions might better facilitate technology transfer between them
and their shareholder companies.
Disclaimer: It's been years since I worked for MCC so consider
everything in this message uninformed speculation.
