[2555] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
access to world.std.com from the Univ of Michigan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Sutterfield)
Mon Mar 16 12:26:05 1992
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 12:22:33 -0500
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob@MorningStar.Com>
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Sean Donelan's message of Mon, 16 Mar 1992 10:56:22 -0600 (CST) <920316105622.9b29@SDG.DRA.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1992 10:56:22 -0600 (CST)
From: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
And the age-old problem comes up once again, which end of the
communications link is responsible for making sure the traffic is
"acceptable?"
Some connectivity models discriminate based on the site, not on the
site's traffic. As I understand that world-view, if a site is
considered commercial, all its traffic is also therefore considered
commercial. This renders your age-old question rather moot, since
either the traffic is pre-declared to be acceptable for passage over a
given link, or it doesn't flow because its routing is disabled. The
responsibility lies with each site, not with a given user who's
generating traffic, and the responsibility is accepted long before the
traffic begins to flow. If a user can successfully generate traffic,
then it must be acceptable because it's not administratively blocked.
(I may have mangled and misrepresented that world-view, for which I
(a) apologize, and (b) anticipate swift correction.)
