[10705] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: clarifying NAP discussions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Sun Mar 6 11:00:59 1994
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 07:22:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>> From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
>> Does anybody else out there think there's something inherently wrong
>> with NSF acting, in essence, as a telecommunications regulatory authority?
> From: Scott Bradner <sob@hsdndev.harvard.edu>
> gee, I don't remember seeing anything other than >1.5Mb as NAP rules
> from NSF, has there been something else?
> From: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>
> Yes.
>
> However, I not believe that NSF is involved in NAP policy making
> the solicition calls for each NAP manager to establish its own
> policies and pricing.
No policy, or almost no policy, is in itself a policy -- and a recipe for
chaos. NSF is saying that i. there will be NAPs, and ii. the policy
shall be no policy. This seems to me to be pretty irresponsible.
Miles
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