[9425] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The annointed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Perry - Unisys)
Wed Jan 5 06:33:31 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 06:33:01 EST
From: perry@stars.reston.paramax.com (Dennis Perry - Unisys)
To: bmanning@is.rice.edu, bzs@world.std.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, marc@MIT.EDU, perry@stars.reston.paramax.com,
Barry and others,
I have been away for the holidays and the topic of AUP may have
already been exhausted (I have 600 more messages to plow through).
But, it seems to me that we have an equivalent or similar AUP
requirement currently in the way snail-mail is handled. If I work
for the government, they tell me that I cannot mail my personnal
mail through their mail room, and industry also tells me the same thing.
In addition, they also tell me that I cannot receive personal mail
at work. Now, how do I handle this? Well, mostly I have another
address, called "home" to which personal mail is sent, most of the time.
I also mostly send mail from home, not from work. So that part works
out ok.
But, this only addresses the delivery of mail to the source and the
sorting and sending of mail from the source. The transit system, i.e.
the USPS, doesn't care whether I send mail from home or work or where
the mail is delivered (nor does it much care how long it takes :-)
So, it seems to me that if we could develop the transit system for
the Internet to be more like the neutral snail-mail system, then
sites could impose their own AUP on what comes in and what goes
out.
dennis
