[195] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Should the NREN be funded?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Wed Feb 27 02:39:36 1991
From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 01:27:07 CST
In-Reply-To: schoff@psi.com (Marty Schoffstall)
To: schoff@psi.com (Marty Schoffstall), com-priv@psi.com
Nothing is said here of substance about the impact of interLATA service
offerings by the RBOCs. Is this somehow going to be masked by the consumption
of these services by the commercial network providers? Or are these services
believed to be too far in the future and too late to make an impact?
What of the impact of Metropolitan Area Networks? There is nothing to say
that more of these won't develop. There is certainly nothing to say that
these will be developed by the same folks that have developed the existing
ones (in the D.C. area for example). I could imagine a Federation of
Commerical MAN providers creating some kind of analogue to the current
regional/research network federation.
Will the commercial internets of the future be operated by companies like PSI
or by companies like WilTel?
Comments, please.
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Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine
