[2003] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Dialog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Jan 17 12:50:43 1992
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 11:19 EST
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
To: daveh@csn.ORG
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199201170516.AA23230@teal.csn.org>
In article <199201170516.AA23230@teal.csn.org> you write:
>Talk is cheap. Reality is the appearance of the word 'Connected' on
>one's CRT.
>
>Trying 'telnet dialog.com' I got nothing.
>
>We no longer have a national network.
By that measure we haven't had a national network for some time now.
Try 'ftp world.std.com' and go look at the Open Book Initiative stuff.
Part of the internet can get to it, part can't. We can argue whether
the reason is as a result of NSF policy or something else, I'm sure
there's plenty of reasonable answers to be given.
I suspect that the reasons why both world and Dialog are only partly
reachable are different. Any system should be able to decide that
it can get along with only limited internet connectivity; lots of
places go to some effort doing that with firewalls and all. But the
responsibility should be at the individual *site* level, not the
network level; I just wouldn't buy a connection from a network
service provider that didn't let me use it to connect to the whole
world.
(which suggests again that Dialog didn't know quite what they
were getting into...)
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Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 741 1120
