[8741] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: One-way Internet?..no, it's "Asymetric"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Walker)
Thu Dec 2 16:45:12 1993
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 15:45:06 CST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
So what's the word form EFF: Are you saying that asymetric links should be
barred as plolicy? Are you saying that the monoploy position cable systems
have had makes them a special case re asymetry?
>The debate is not whether all users can be satisfied with an asymmetric
>(hi inbound, lo outbound) connection but whether such an offering is so
>harmful that EFF is justified in, as I read their position, saying that
>the US government must not allow it. Given that there _is_ a reverse
>path, and I can use to post my diatribes, I think that position is
>untenable.
>
>I think the dreadful error would be to allow only one way to get to my
>house, or to have all the ways controlled by one company/consortium/cabal.
>
Good point. I agree totally.
