[1589] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EINet - "The Business Internet" ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brim)
Sat Nov 23 22:41:38 1991
To: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, nren-discuss@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Nov 91 11:35:20 MST."
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 91 22:29:30 -0500
From: Scott Brim <swb@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu>
>Why is this network needed, in light of the extant cadre of commercial
>Internet service providers Alternet, ANS, CerfNet and PSI (aka "the Usual
>Suspects") who are already providing excellent support for business-to-business
>internetworking services?
I don't understand your surprise. Why was CerfNet needed when PSI was
there already? And so on. There's room in this marketplace, mainly
*because* the others have opened it up so successfully.
>Do you think EIT or MCC will attempt to garnish any of the HPCC/NREN
>funds for their efforts?
Of course. Everyone else will too.
>If we have networking services such as those provided by the extant
>Usual Suspects and/or EIT "for hire" on a commercial basis, why do
>we need NREN/HPCC? Seems the extant cadre of Usual Suspects are already
>providing the "highway" for networking services to be built on and what
>we need now is more money for marketing to make potential customers aware
>of the benefits and to subscribe.
Right.
