[211] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Bill S.'s paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R. Fidelman)
Wed Feb 27 13:41:24 1991
From: "Miles R. Fidelman" <mfidelma@BBN.COM>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9102271603.AA24368@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 13:27:36 EST
I generally agree with Bill's paper, with two caveats:
a. We still need to do a significant amount of research on global
issues. I believe the arguement that carriers will fund their own
research on such things as switching and transmission technology. I
don't believe that protocols (particularly routing protocols), and
global Internet architecture issues can be left to the individual
competing carriers to work out.
b. I see a continuing need for an overall Internet systems engineer /
architect role, and for a global NIC. Right now all of this comes to us
courtesy of the IAB/IETF with authority granted by the Federal agencies
that run the backbone networks, and through DoD sponsorship of the NIC.
As we move into a world where Federally sponsored networks are no longer
as central, we may need a new structure for handling all of this.
Bellcore comes to mind as one model. I'm sure NRI would like the job,
as would BBN.
Miles
