[2564] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: access to world.std.com from the Univ of Michigan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Cottrell)
Mon Mar 16 19:53:55 1992
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 19:53:03 -0500
From: pete@cs.UMD.EDU (Pete Cottrell)
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, alison@oar.net, com-priv@psi.com, jrr@concert.net
Subject: Re: access to world.std.com from the Univ of Michigan
Somehow I must be missing something. Just why do I need to get
to world.std.com?
Not trying to trivialize your question, but I was afraid we'd end up
seeing something like this.
The specific answer is that you may have no need whatsoever to
get to world.std.com. The generalized answer is that world is just a
specific example of a generic site that generic people at other sites
may not be able to get to. World may be a particularly good example,
because of their location in an area chock full of universities and
labs doing research, much of it for the government. World's subscribers
may be some of those researchers, or may offer services to local researchers
that might be useful to other sites that may or may not be able to get to
them. You might also consider something like the Open Book Initiative as
a resource if you want to look at World specifically instead of generically.
I hope we do not start viewing Barry Shein's high visibility
on this issue as an attempt to get his site taken care of; instead, the
objective, IMHO, is to recognize that connectivity is a good thing, and
to break down the barriers that inhibit it.
