[8835] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: TIME magazine article spreads NSFnet MYTH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Mon Dec 6 16:08:24 1993
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 15:05:10 -0600
From: tjs@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
To: cook@path.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 05:22:33 GMT
> To: com-priv@psi.com
> Subject: TIME magazine article spreads NSFnet MYTH
>
> Philip Elmer Dewitt writes in TIME magazine:
> [...]
> . . . "The change has already begun. NSF's contribution now
> represents about 10% of the total cost of the network, and the agency is
> scheduled *to start phasing **out** its support next April,* removing at
> the same time what few restrictions still remain against commercial
> activity."
>
> Why does the mainstream press *buy* this propaganda?
> [...]
Perhaps the TIME reporter read the following on com-priv:
>> However, the amount of costs the NSF now picks up is a
>> minor part of the Internet, essentially irrelevant compared to other
>> factors, and disappearing in a few months as NSFNet goes away
>> and the U.S. backbone traffic shifts to the existing commercial
>> internet backbone providers.
-tjs
