[877] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Software Sales via e-mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Fri Jun 28 07:36:25 1991
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe2@BBN.COM>
To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <910627140516.202084c1@dranet.dra.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 07:35:48 EDT
>From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
>Subject: Re: Software Sales via e-mail
>
>The corporate folks felt it would be prudent to assume that when something
>was sent through the Internet it would be considered "made public."...
>
>So even if NSF allowed "commercial" use of the Internet, that wouldn't mean
>that corporations would take them up on it.
>--
I will grant that commercial transactions across the public NSFnet
Internet might be considered disclosed, but commercial customers are
able to use internet technology and commercial internet service to move
sensitive documents from one place to another with no fear of de facto
disclosure. I would certainly think that that should hold today if I
was moving something from a site on PSInet to a site on CERFnet.
How else could EDI possibly work?
--Kent
