[115] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: commercial use of the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Sun Nov 11 22:51:47 1990
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 22:37:27 EST
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
To: Bob <smart@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, smart@mel.dit.csiro.au
"b) Commercial organizations attached to the R&E part of the Internet
should get a letter saying "if you do not have a connection to the
commercial Internet then please let us know what internal precautions
you are taking to ensure that your staff don't inadvertently use the
R&E backbone for commercial purposes". And set up a one warning then
your off system for future transgressions. In particular the companies
that remain only on the R&E part of the network must not allow
packet level exchanges with commercial concerns on the commercial or
on the R&E parts of the Internet -- in other words the communication
on behalf of a 3rd party rule should be dropped."
Most companies I know would cure that one easily . They would restrict access to
the net to a very limited number of people (VERY LIMITED) and thus damage
the usefulness of it to the company and thus the willingness
to pay real money for it.
Its a VERY hard problem. The easiest way I know to solve it in the
long run is to establish a viable commercial network widely used
where the R&E community can piggy back at consumer rates -- like the
telephone system. Till then it will be painful in the extreme.
Dave
