[1653] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: international links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Mon Dec 9 12:47:05 1991
To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Cc: Martin Schoffstall <schoff@mail.psi.net>, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 91 09:18:12 PST."
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 91 12:44:36 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
I'm taking about the equivalent of the FULLY FUNDED T3 connections
that NSF does inside the US. the FULLY funded or its rough
equivalent US <-> "Other Country" links. Will they have access
to DIALOG under this system. Will the same shell game be played etc...
I raised these questions at a "international connections" meeting at
NSF several months ago and got no satisfactory answer - in fact it was
worse than that because when I brought up specific areas such as international
DNS/Directory ANS's rep said "a lot of money can be made there".
Marty
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Your note confused me -- which international links are you talking
about? Funding for links between the US and non-US countries varies from
joint funding from multiple agencies, to partial govt. funding, to links
funded entirely by the non-US entity. [This leaves aside all those
international links which connect two non-US countries].
And what exactly do you see the potential impact of the ANS announcement
to be upon links between the US and non-US countries.
Craig
PS: Pardon the awkward term "non-US" -- I'm just tired of using the term
"foreign" to mean any country other than the US.
