[236] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Should the NREN be funded?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Smith)
Thu Feb 28 13:18:17 1991
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 12:47:50 EST
From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
To: stev@ftp.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> useful things are being developed that are functionally non-changable
> because one company "ownes" it (like NFS),
I agree with Steve that more funding for University research is needed,
but I'm not sure I agree that NFS is non-changable because it is "owned"
by Sun. The reason it's hard to change is because so many things out
there use it and depend on it being the way it is for interoperability.
So many non-Sun vendors have NFS in their OS's now (or have NFS available
via third-party vendors) that making any major changes just wouldn't work.
No one company "ownes" TCP/IP, but you don't see that changing (or at least
not very fast, and not very radically, and not at its core) do you?
