[10786] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet vs Minitel : a futuristic view of the network e
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert G. Moskowitz)
Wed Mar 9 12:24:05 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 07:38 EST
From: "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921@mcimail.com>
To: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: com priv <com-priv@psi.com>
>Called "Kiosk's" these small providers talk directly to a user's Minitel
>terminal over France's Transpac packet data network. The genious of Minitel
>is that it provides a centralized billing system that allows these Kiosk
>operators to make money, something that the Internet does not provide to
>the myriad WWW or Gopher based service providers.
Ah, Transpac = X.25 ???? So is the billing a packet count? Easy to do with
an X.25 network, very hard to do with our IPv4 network (yes there are ugh
proposals on the table).
Bob
