[1645] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Commercial Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Schoffstall)
Sun Dec 8 23:23:22 1991
In-Reply-To: <9112081509.AA09701@tmn.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 91 23:21:00 -0400
To: "Gordon Cook" <cook@tmn.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
From: "Martin Schoffstall" <schoff@mail.psi.net>
Reply-To: schoff@psi.com
>
> Next would someone please define what is meant by a commercial connection?
> If Dialogue is ANS's first such, how does one categorize the connections
> of Union Carbide and Abbot Labs? Is a commercial connection commercial
> ONLY when the company has something to SELL to the research members of the
> network?
>
One of the many important questions to ask in the purposely created fog
bank, is who determines what is a commercial connection, a commercial
service, and commercial traffic under the secretive-trilateral-axis agreements.
As Bill mentioned in one of his postings we only recently found out that
a policy decision was made by the NSF (representing the US Government)
that the official method for commercialization/privitization was
combits. This decision was made over
a year ago, followed by a procurement (for T3 interconnects)
that massively increased the finances of one company, that those
same connections were exclusively given to the same company to commercialize.
Quite the deal. Especially when you consider that full value was payed for
the T3's but full value certainly wasn't delivered.
This reminds me somewhat of the Bureau of Land Mangement follies in the
West.
Marty
