[9386] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: More on clarfication of ISOC - actually a reply to Noel's post
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott W Brim)
Mon Jan 3 10:20:41 1994
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 10:18:00 -0500
To: jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa), com-priv@psi.com,
From: Scott W Brim <swb1@cornell.edu>
Cc: isoc-trustees@cnri.reston.va.us
>My knowledge of the operation of other cooperative systems, particularly
>international ones, is rather hazy, but my understanding is that things such
>as the US electric grid (which is a collection of cooperating autonomous
>entities) have faced this issue (of operational issues which are beyond the
>scope of any one constituent entity) within the context of industry
>organizations.
The electric companies have the extreme luxury of being regulated
public utilities, without burgeoning competition in a wide open,
rapidly growing, lucrative, and mostly undefined field. At this point
in the Internet's evolution we're even seeing competition between
groups fostering cooperation. ...Scott
