[2614] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: world.std.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Mar 23 00:28:23 1992
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 92 21:27:15 PST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com (com-priv list)
In-Reply-To: <9203230512.AA11650@world.std.com>; from "Barry Shein" at Mar 23, 92 12:12 am
> That was the real point. It's very hard for an end-user to know how
> his or her packets are going to a particular host, even hour to hour.
Until politics and greed prevailed over technics and sharing, this was
considered a major design feature. How absolutely baroque and sad that
folk should think that they want or need to know.
randy
