[329] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
A few questions re current discussions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun Welch)
Fri Mar 8 14:28:05 1991
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 14:03:09 -0500
From: Arun Welch <welch@cis.ohio-state.edu>
To: jhaverty@us.oracle.com
Cc: emv@ox.com, jhaverty@us.oracle.com, ddern@world.std.com, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: Jack Haverty's message of Fri, 08 Mar 91 09:50:21 PST <9103081750.AA06314@rivendell.us.oracle.com>
>So I guess the question I was really trying to ask was how does a new service,
>whatever it is, get introduced into "The Internet".
Probably by popularity, and having the source and/or spec for the program released
for anyone to use. Examples that have worked include IRC, NTP, NNTP,
and to some extent NFS and X. Nowadays the OS and language of choice
would be Unix and C, in earlier days it was TOPS-20 and Macro.
Eventually those OS's that don't support the original source write
their own versions or ports. Releasing the spec alone, or spec with
sources in lesser-used languages won't work as well, as can be demonstrated by
SUPDUP, which was much better than TELNET on LispM's, but never
really made it into the mainstream.
...arun
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Arun Welch
Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
