[716] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost Of TCP/IP Dialup Connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taylor Walsh)
Fri May 17 13:48:10 1991
Date: Thu, 16 May 91 07:50:46 pdt
From: srchtec!emory!gatech!apple.com!well!taylorw%uupsi.UUCP@psi.com (Taylor Walsh)
To: steve@cise.nsf.gov, franciszaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
But to what extent are university administrations fully aware of
the use of networks for their communities? Are there conversations
underway now, for instance, among university budgeteers (not in
the academic or administrative computing departments) evaluating
what networking investments mean to the institution as a whole?
What is the sense at the highest budgetary levels, and/or the
highest departmental levels, that: a) networking is needed, and
that b) it should remain a service provided by the university
to its community, like showers in the gym?
I am sure that some institutions have looked this in the eye
and have torn up their campuses to lay fiber as a result,
but that investment is meant for community-wide networking.
What about the external networking, which in financial terms
get down to links and the speed of those links and how many
linkers are going to have access to them?
