[8744] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: One-way Internet?..no, it's "Asymetric"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Thu Dec 2 18:47:15 1993
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 18:46 EST
From: emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In article <199312012310.AA00324@fnord.wang.com> Tom Fitzgerald says:
: I suspect both the clinic and your sister will rent space on a local data
: warehouse like MSEN ($0.50/Meg/month last time I checked - Ed V can correct
: me). They'll have invested in the support staff and redundant hardware to
: run everything. Your sister can upload her stuff once at 1/100th of
: realtime, if necessary, and all her customers can download it from there,
: in realtime, dozens at a time, guaranteed.
The current going rates are $120/yr for up to 10 mb of storage on an
anonymous FTP area; that gives you a place for other people to drop
things off for you, and also a place for you to publish stuff that's
for world wide viewing. FTP is sufficiently clumsy for individual
permissions on world wide visible files that we don't aim this particular
service at people who have "tricky" setups.
To hazard a guess, the "nice" way to deal with these sorts of images
would be to put them on a server with some finer grained access controls,
and a server that didn't require the sort of numbing attention to the
details of typing that FTP has. E.g. I would run things through a
World Wide Web server, where images could be published from a
central data archive and then permitted on a per user basis for
retrieval using some nice tool like Mosaic. Send a little bit of
e-mail saying essentially "your prints are ready, take a look at
that spot on #6" with a link to the retrieval key for the collection,
so that when the user hits the link they get prompted for a pass
code, and then things go up on screen.
I haven't heard convincing stories on how all of these clinics are
going to get on line, whether it be networks put together by hospitals,
clinics going out on their own and getting internet connections from
commercial vendors, or some 3d party like GE going off and building
a national infrastructure for their own efforts. If you could rely
on their being ISDN in enough places this is certainly something that
could be done without dedicated lines at the edges of the network...
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
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