[1978] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANS Pricing Model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue Jan 14 16:26:37 1992
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 16:22:26 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Maybe it will work eventually, but I keep getting a sinking feeling
that these settlement things are going to be the "high level
structured assemblers" (remember those? how about program
verification? bubble memory?) of the networking world. A concept that
is understandably compelling to certain people, but gets usurped by a
much better idea (including that the need for the idea just sort of
disappears in new realities.)
I suppose what's making my nose twitch is that there's a difference
between needs and solutions, and I think the two are getting confused
here, expression of the need (problem) being offered as if it compels
a solution. Just the technical aspects of accounting and auditing seem
daunting to me.
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD
