[196] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Should the NREN be funded?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Wed Feb 27 09:40:38 1991
To: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Feb 91 01:27:07 CST."
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 09:20:10 -0500
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@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?
>I think you mean INTRALATA; however, the RBOC's were there and presented
>their case. Hence my suggestion that they post their own presentations.
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.
>Again, this was more of the area left to the RBOC's because they believe
>that they have a leg up on MAN's through SMDS. This of course is
>rather humorous to me.
Will the commercial internets of the future be operated by companies like PSI
or by companies like WilTel?
>In truth I think that the way the NREN legislation is being politically
>and procedurally packaged is making no room for commercial internets.
>There are some very implicit assumptions of the introduced in the NREN
>bill and DEFINTELY in some of the key players that this is going to
>be a government/agency/one-big-non-profit sandbox.
>Each presenter only had 10 minutes, so one had to be pretty focused
>in their presentation.
>Marty
