[10376] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: $50 Million Dollar Gift
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sun Feb 20 09:29:01 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 14:26:04 GMT
Apparently-To: <com-priv@psi.com>
I said the best evidence I could get from my sources was that AT&T did
indeed offer the vbns at no cost to the nsf.
I heard this for the first time early in september. In December and
january I heard it repeatedly from people in 5 different organizations.
Within the past week from a person at a 6th organization I heard a
somewhat vague and carefully worded suggestion that although the
critical part of AT&T's proposal may indeed have been zero the proposal
itself did have some dollar cost to the feds. I have also heard from
solid sources that AT&T's prop was technically defficient.
I have heard zero from AT&T. Publically or privately. I know a BUNCH
of folk there, *all* of whom aren't talking. Sure would be interesting
o receive a copy of their prop.....but that's ONE thing that hasNOT
dropped into my mailbox recently.
AT&T seems to have taken the NSF's suggestions about cost sharing very
seriously! Just wish I knew WHY on a technical level they didn't have
the right stuff and MCI did.
