[2274] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Connecting to the Internet outside of the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Haverty)
Tue Feb 4 12:39:40 1992
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 09:36:39 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Things seem to have quieted down... I'd like to ask a question about a new
topic...
At Oracle, we're getting queries from some of our contacts *outside of the US*
who are (somehow) connected to the Internet, at least for mail, about the
feasibility of communicating with them via The Internet. Places like Poland for
example. Basically lots of places in Europe/Asia, Australia/New Zealand, South
America, and/or Africa might be in this situation.
It's obviously technically feasible to do this. And there's been plenty of
discussion on this list about the issues and techniques for doing this from the
US (COMBITs et al).
The question...
Can anyone describe what the issues, if any, are for interconnecting between a
commercial company and the Internet *outside of the US* ?? E.G., could we
establish a connection between, say, our Switzerland office and some network in
Europe which is a component of the Internet, and use that connection to
communicate (possibly for commercial purposes) with other Internet-accessible
organizations in Europe?
Do organizations who connect to the Internet outside of the US deal with
something similar to "acceptable use" policies? What are they?
Does anyone currently do this kind of thing? Does anyone who manages some
network outside of the US offer this kind of service? Is anyone
"commercializing the Internet" in various parts of the world a la ANS, PSI,
AlterNet, InfoNet, Sprint, et al?
Jack
