[10438] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jarmo Lahti)
Wed Feb 23 03:55:04 1994
From: Jarmo Lahti <jlahti@infocrea.fi>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:39:29+0200
There seems to be more and more this kind of anonymous messages from
com-priv. Is this anonymity deliberate?
> Date sent: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:12:00 +0200
> From: com-priv-forw@lists.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.
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