[1808] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Toward 1992 Resolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Ferguson)
Mon Dec 30 17:41:13 1991
From: Dennis Ferguson <dennis@MrBill.CAnet.CA>
To: wls@psi.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1991 17:36:17 -0000
wls@psi.com (William Schrader) writes:
> I
> know, now, that he was _not_ saying to me: 'I am going to help you
> open up this market for all the FARNet members, so that we can all
> build this industry together'.
>
> So: instead of building the marketplace by bringing new connections
> into the internet, ANS is using their NSF sanctioned advantage and
> signing existing customers of FARNET and CIX Association members.
> Their recent spate of "clarifying" messages have only been attempts
> to put more palatable spins on the same old unsavory plan.
I shouldn't comment since I only have a view from afar, but I have the
distinct impression that PSI didn't seem nearly so shy about attracting
existing customers of FARNET members when ANS wasn't one of the operators
also competing for their patronage.
Not that it matters, since I personally don't see anything wrong with
head-to-head competition and complaints about the lack of levelness of the
playing field and the unsavoury business practices of the competition
are always fun. I just sometimes get confused by the apparent periodic
rearrangements of "us" and "them" :-).
Dennis Ferguson
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 19:20:15 CST
Subject: Re: Only somewhat unkind remarks about K-12....
On Apr 4, 7:47pm, "Martin Lee Schoffstall" wrote:
} However, we're operating in Houston and Dallas today, and the commercial
} organizations are coming on, so we're happy.
}-- End of excerpt from "Martin Lee Schoffstall"
Operating in Houston.... hmmm a site called houston_C.pop.psi.net is listed
with an internet address but is unreachable. Doesn't sound very operational
to me......:-)
Subject: Re: Only somewhat unkind remarks about K-12....
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 20:30:13 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Operating in Houston.... hmmm a site called houston_C.pop.psi.net is listed
with an internet address but is unreachable. Doesn't sound very operational
to me......:-)
Its probably one of the unenabled v.35 interfaces for a yet to be
completed installation of a soon-to-be-former commercial customer of yours ;-)
Its hard for me to keep track of all the DNS records.
Marty
