[249] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Other Researchers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Fri Mar 1 08:35:33 1991
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 08:16:05 -0500
From: sean@dsl.pitt.edu (Sean McLinden)
To: pgross@NRI.Reston.VA.US
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
re: GOSIP
I think that you misread my statement. What I said was that the Gov't,
through such steps as GOSIP was, *in theory*, in a position to mandate
the use of certain technologies. I went on to say (which was *really*
the point of bringing up), that that mechanism might be use to force
a top down education of Gov't departments and agencies such that they,
in turn, support the technologic infrastructure necessary to motivate
the use of NREN. When the NIH eschews the Internet to use BITNET (I
know there will be a flame or two here) what you may have is a pragmatic
decision (more of their intended audience is on BITNET) or you may have
a lack of awareness as to who can be reached by Internet (or both). A
GOSIP-like strategy may help to force Federal intramural attention on
such technologies as those which support the Internet.
Sean McLinden
