[1665] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The WEIS/AUPPERLE letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Adams)
Mon Dec 9 20:42:35 1991
From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
To: steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov (Stephen Wolff)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 20:41:07 EST
Cc: members@farnet.org, regional-techs@merit.edu, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: <9112092134.AA23315@cise.cise.nsf.gov>; from "Stephen Wolff" at Dec 9, 91 4:32 pm
But isnt is legitimate for an R&E user to make use of a commercial
service for R&E purposes?
E.g. if a researcher at MIT wanted to do a literature serach on Dialog
fo his research, then there should be no problem with
Dialog's "commericial" packets traveling on teh NSFnet backbone
because they are for R&E purposes.
I guess I dont understand how someone can declare their information
to be commercial without knowing how it will be used.
The reason it matters is that this penalizes legitimate researchers whose
midlevel networks chose not to deal with ANS.
