[8262] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS, the CIX, the rain, the park and other things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Fri Nov 12 12:59:25 1993
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 12:53:17 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: karl@mcs.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> > Well, yes. This thread has me confused. Is the argument that there
> > are places on the net that R&E people shouldn't be able to reach?
> If that is true then there is no AUP at all, since you can't realistically
> block someone from reaching someone in one direction but not the other
That was my point, of course. The AUP explicitly *allows* R&E
connectivity with commercial sites, so those sites can offer support
for R&E. About the only things not allowed under the AUP are R&E sites
themselves engaging in commercial activity, advertisements, and
commercial sites talking to each other (for non R&E purposes) through
an R&E site. (The latter is probably pretty rare anyway except perhaps
for BITNET email gateways.)
It seems every time the AUP comes up, sombody has to point out that
it's not about who can connect to whom but about what the connectivity
can be used for.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
