[10561] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chetly A. Zarko)
Sun Feb 27 01:46:55 1994
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 23:03 EST
From: czar@cyberspace.org (Chetly A. Zarko)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: czar@cyberspace.org
On 25 Feb 94 Hans Werner Braun writes:
If you are out for adventure, you could also try to apply another
metrics, like how much NSF pays for delivered unit of service (like
packet, byte, net, host, user, ...) and draw a function over time.
Hope your tools can do log scaling
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Mr. Braun, if this is your only argument in favor of the
way NSF has handled things with the solicitation, then it
is weak. The important question to ask is whether or not
that log increase in usage is related to NSF policy or whether
the correlation is spurious. It seems reasonable to conclude
that demand would have increased regardless of NSF or any
government policy (given the information revolution), and
that that increase was inevitable. The academic question
to ask is whether the policy increased the rate of increase
or decreased the rate of increase or had no effect at all.
I pose this question to you. Would the net have expanded faster
without government industrial policy? I don't have the
definitive answer. Without a way to quantify the effect
of government policy, your answer will vary according to
ideology.
Convince me, Mr. Braun.
Chetly Zarko
Freelance Writer,
Ann Arbor, Mi
