[1683] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: A minor correction to Bill Schrader's communique
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Tue Dec 10 17:15:38 1991
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe2@BBN.COM>
To: alison@oar.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, members@farnet.org
In-Reply-To: <9112101906.AA25920@thor.oar.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 17:13:02 EDT
>
>It was in that (in)famous meeting that COMBITS were invented, and
>that network number was chosen to be the determinant of whether traffic
>was commercial or not, and the National Infrastructure Pool and the
>mechanisms for is disbursement were suggested. So I, and the others
>at that meeting whom I shall not name, all bear some share of the
>blame, if blame there be, for all these things.
I was there. Of course, I still scratch my head over settlements, so
I'm a little slow on the uptake. :-)
Al Weis first presented the idea about Infrastructure Pool and first
said "settlement". I remember two carefully presented speeches in the
afternoon. The first was made by Doug van H; the second by Steve Wolff.
Al Weis took the notes of the meeting.
The NSF memo to Merit was dated Sep 90, prior to this first ANS
settlement meeting, which was in mid December 1990. I think the
similarity between the memo and the meeting minutes is less than
remarkable.
--Kent
