[2234] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
SLIPing Questions and Answers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sat Feb 1 22:16:40 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 1 Feb 92 22:05:10 EST (Sat)
From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 01-FEB-92 22:05
cook@tmn
<laugh> To Barry and Dave:
I though that during the past week I had heard here a strong conscensus
that though there were plenty of slip implimentations they were all rather
tricky to work with and therefore required much customer hand-holding and
support and made it difficult to price low end access any lower.
Someone - I don't remember whom - said what was needed was a clean easy
"plug in and play" version of slip to eliminate much of the need for hand
holding.
As to a dearth of networking applications for NSF k-12 science money, I
better let Dave Hughes answer that one.
I suspect part of the answer is that some practitioners think support for
application demos is desirable while the NSF has a more theoretical
rsearch oriented mission. If you don't have strong enough theoretical
underpinnings in your proposal forget it??? Perhaps the US Department of
Education is the place to go for application support?? Problem is that
virtual no one in the D of ED knows anything about Telecom. OERI within D
of Ed apparently does know. And will be getting a demonstration of the
MIT taught chaos math course before the month is out.
