[670] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Can the FCC Take Care of the Net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net)
Wed May 8 22:22:33 1991
From: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed May 8 13:37:21 1991
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 08-MAY-91 13:37
cook@tmn
To Francis Stracke who suggests that the FCC could "take care of the Net".
Unfortunatly the answer is "no". In their eyes the NREN would be a VAN
offered by an enhnaced services provider (ESP). Just like Compuserve and
Prodigy... VANs offered by ESPs. Apparently the way the law stands no
renders it unable to distinguish between a compuserve, a prodigy and an
NREN. If the cost to use the NREN is too much for you to pay, or your
access is not there, not our problem - use prodigy or compuserve. You are
not deprived of access to computer networks. And VANs offfered by ESPs
are NOT regulatable entities.
It seems a little strange to me to have NREN equated in anyway with either
prodigy or compuserve.
If I am in error in any of the above, I look forward to readers
corrections.
