[857] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Carrier Liability Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Templeton)
Wed Jun 19 04:53:53 1991
To: watmath!cup.portal.com!Will
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 1:33:40 EDT
From: Brad Templeton <brad@looking.on.ca>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9106181840.1.15147@cup.portal.com>; from "Will@watmath.UUCP" at Jun 18, 91 6:40 pm
I suspect that the problem is that internetworking firms are working
on the fixed price model, where you pay for and get traffic for yourself,
and not for others. In the fixed price model, you can't realisticly carry
traffic for other parties. Not direct sockets, anyway.
In the common carrier system, you can't put dictates on the traffic, and
you can't look at it.
Internetworkers would need a modified classificaiton, where they might
not be allowed to restrict the content of packets, but could still
control the authorship.
Some attempts at fixed rate 800 number companies have come about, but they
have failed.
