[1874] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: interesting historical document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Sat Jan 4 12:13:41 1992
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 12:13:03 EST
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
To: sean@dsl.pitt.edu (sean mclinden)
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
We should go off line with a dicussion of whether regulation is good
or bad and whether data networking is or is not a natural monopoly.
My personal feelings are that regulation distorts the world more than
it helps in most cases where there is not a natural monopoly. The
only justifyable case I know of right now is the power industry.
certainly the telephone industry has no technical reason in the
future to be a monopoly.
Now off line.
Dave
