[10724] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Okay, my turn.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Mar 7 02:40:57 1994
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 94 21:57 EST
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Okay, my turn to predict the death of the Internet:
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,alt.games.doom
From: mww2g@virginia.edu (Mike)
Subject: Internet doom, tcpsetup.zip, and Cyberspace!
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 04:39:18 GMT
I have experienced the future! I just finished playing netdoom with one
guy from Deleware and another guy from Pennsylvania! And it was
quite fast! They kicked my butt, though.. :) IT was incredible!
This is the future of gaming! We were trying to get 4 people in
the game, but one couldn't get it to work.. Kill your long distance
friends!! [...]
And you thought Mazewar was bad!
But actually, that got me to thinking about bandwidth reservation. An
IETF subgroup is working on a way to reserve bandwidth on routers.
Well, what if we allow people to pay for this bandwidth? It would
work more-or-less like a telephone call. But unlike the telephone
system, you could pay nothing to use excess bandwidth, or pay more to
push your call through a congested network. Kind of like the military
phone system's urgency buttons.
