[9447] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The annointed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Wed Jan 5 18:10:04 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 16:04:23 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: perry@stars.reston.paramax.com, bmanning@is.rice.edu, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: <199401051959.AA12574@world.std.com>
On Wed, 5 Jan 1994, Barry Shein wrote:
>
> >From: perry@stars.reston.paramax.com (Dennis Perry - Unisys)
> >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.
>
> I agree 100%.
>
> Studying systems like the USPS should be instructive. As much as we
> all tend to be critical let's face it, they handle real volume. Two
> hundred years of walking the fine line between what is reasonable and
> fair and what is manageable within a huge system is not to be lightly
> discounted.
Indeed, study of organizations such as the USPS can provide instructive
both in things to emulate and things to toss. Same with the various
telco's, and other existing networks. Permit me to recommend the book
"Reengineering the Corporation" by Michael Hammer and James Champy, ISBN
0-88730-640-3, also, as a resource. The biggest mistake would likely be
to adopt a method because it used to work.
Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
