[2000] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Dialog - Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Fri Jan 17 11:15:11 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 17 Jan 92 10:54:46 EST (Fri)
From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 17-JAN-92 10:54
cook@tmn
If Bill Gunshanon successfully telneted to Dialog, I would conclude that
this means that HIS network Prepnet has signed the ANS agreements.
And as for violating NSF policy (Lloyd Taylor), could I suggest that I am
having trouble figuring out what NSF policy is in this case? It appears
that for ANS it is one thing and for mid-levels something else again. Why
do I say this? Because so far no one has told me that my suggestion,
often asserted on this list in the last few weeks, that if Dialog had
connected to Barrnet that it could have done so under R&E status and
offered the same services it is trying to offer now with no objection from
the NSF.
A question: how do the filtered (blocked) bits of Dialog differ from
those sent by the CIX accross the ANSnet backbone? If Dialog is
commercial and is blocked, does the CIX not also fall into the same
category?
I have been totally immersed in NREN for 16.5 months of 60 and 70 and 80
hour weeks. Unfortuntately the imersion does nothing to dispell my
feeling of confusion.
