[1965] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Summarizing the Situation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jordan Becker)
Mon Jan 13 19:05:09 1992
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 19:00:58 EST
From: Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
To: laws@ai.sri.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> > Gordon Cook says:
> > ... I think the only thing that could clear up the
> vast amount of my remaining fog on this is an all day face-to-face seminar.
>
> Hi!
>
> I got a chuckle out of this. I don't know anything about ANS, but
> I've had a hand in debugging code, bureaucracies, and business ventures.
> Gordon seems to view the ANS agreements as equivalent to natural laws,
> to be investigated and understood to any desired degree. I should
> think that Philosophy is a better analogy. ANS began with a general
> approach or philosophy, and is working out the details day by day.
> Each day's discussion on com-priv probably deepens ANS's understanding
> of the course it is charting. It is we who are dispelling their fog,
> not the other way around.
>
> -- Ken
Ken - You are right on that people should not view the ANS agreements, COMBITs
accounting model, etc. as natural laws, and that we are learning a lot from
this list and other sources of feedback. We are executing the plan we have
described consistently based upon the original philosophy, but we are making
incremental changes as we learn more.
One such incremental change we have recently made is to accept a simple letter
of consent from service providers that we connect with giving their approval
to participate in the exchange of traffic between RE classified subscribers
they host, and commercially classified subscribers reachable via the ANSNET.
This can be thought of as a low end version of the connectivity agreement,
without many of the terms and conditions, or benefits, such as participation
in the infrastructure pool.
While the rest of the plan remains unchanged, we are contemplating other
changes based upon the constructive feedback we have received, and are always
open to more constructive feedback.
Jordan
