[9547] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Galloway)
Sun Jan 9 22:10:56 1994
From: John Galloway <jrg@rahul.net>
To: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 19:09:40 -0800 (PST)
Cc: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com, jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9401100003.AA12169@brazos.is.rice.edu> from "William Manning" at Jan 9, 94 06:03:16 pm
Reply-To: jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us
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> Actually, the BBS thrives. Local provisioning is a great thing.
> One of the problems with the growth of the net is the scaleability
> of support issues. If these can be pushed into the neighborhood,
> where I can run down the the sysops house if need be, is a -MUCH-
> better deal than calling a big impersonal nation wide service.
I'm not so sure. The nationwide or regional provider will be able
to reap economies of scale the local shop will not, and the answer
for support is making the technology support itself, not to provide
nearby humans. After all when was the last time you needed help in
configuring your telephone or water/power utility service?
> It also scales to larger numbers of connected sites/people.
Whether few providers operate large hungs of the net or many providers
operate tiny parts, has important social, political, and economic
considerations, but is largely disjoint from scaleability which is
most a technological issue.
-jrg
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