[1935] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Jan 9 15:03:30 1992
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 15:02:06 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: brian@angband.stanford.edu
Cc: lear@relay.sgi.com, com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Brian Lloyd's message of Thu, 9 Jan 92 10:39:17 -0800 <9201091839.AA01925@Angband.Stanford.EDU>
The other model is that commercial bits are viewed as a cost-recovery
vehicle, a la NASA/Landsat services etc.
>Seems that there is no easy answer. Easiest answer is private
>networking from which the NSF or other government institution buys
>service for RE. That eliminates the need to discriminate "good" RE
>bits from "evil" CO bits (or is it the other way around :-). I am not
>so naive as to expect this to happen. Heck, we would have nothing to
>argue about for several hours per day if this were done.
-Barry Shein
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