[1666] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
The WEIS/AUPPERLE letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 9 23:56:33 1991
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 23:48:07 EST
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9112100141.AA11831@rodan.UU.NET> "rick@uunet.uu.net"
From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
The reason it matters is that this penalizes legitimate researchers whose
midlevel networks chose not to deal with ANS.
Here we get to the problem with "natural monopolies" -- since we don't
expect there to be multiple mid-level networks for a site to choose
from (like we don't expect multiple electric power utilities), we need
some way to make sure that they are "reasonable" in the service that
they provide.
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
