[2279] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Self-supporting networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 4 17:29:56 1992
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 17:27:32 EST
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
To: com-priv@psi.com
The replies I've gotten mention the following as self-supporting.
(Of course, NSFnet connections are subsidized. But the internal
operations of the networks are self-supporting.)
Merit (Michigan) (for 20 years! Now that's privatization!)
BARRNet (Calif.)
Nearnet (New England)
CSNET (before it merged with BITNET)
Thanks to all who answered!
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
--
I place my faith in fools. Self confidence, my friends call it.
-- Edgar Allen Poe
