[1667] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The WEIS/AUPPERLE letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Tue Dec 10 01:25:30 1991
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 00:23:12 CST
To: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU, com-priv@psi.com
As I understand it, there are no "natural monopolies" in many markets because
a site can choose between their regional (and in some cases multiple regionals),
PSI, Alternet and ANS.
This allows institutions (commerical or not) to choose (to the extent possible)
which vendor (or vendors) to send their traffic over.
If the regionals choose not to sign an agreement with ANS, individual sites
could deal with ANS directly I would think.
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Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking
Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob and Systems Support
Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine
