[152] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Fee for Service Internet Traffic [was Re: Information ...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue Nov 13 11:54:25 1990
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 11:40:41 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: cperry@gateway.mitre.org
Cc: SEAN@dranet.dra.com, com-priv@psi.com, kwe@buitb.bu.edu
In-Reply-To: Chris Perry's message of Tue, 13 Nov 90 10:42:02 -0500 <9011131542.AA10047@gateway.mitre.org>
The obvious answer to the credit card security problem is to have a
separate channel (voice, direct dial) to dump off your credit card
info or update it. Thereafter you just tell the vendor to send xyz and
punch your card, the vendor can keep the db.
This is the kind of thing uucp is good at it (direct dialing some
random number and doing a quick electronic transaction like dumping
your credit card # off), you could probably do the transaction in a
few seconds. Even at 23c/minute on 800 lines (about the max common
rate) we'd hardly be talking money for the vendor, unless they were
selling pet rocks.
These are not hard problems (even if you don't love my solution),
maybe we should drop it. How come when people talk about
internetworking they immediately forget about the voice network (I
mean gee, you could call them and read the number over the phone if
you're concerned.)
-Barry Shein
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