[9602] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet in a box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Galloway)
Thu Jan 13 19:27:16 1994
From: John Galloway <jrg@rahul.net>
To: dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 16:26:02 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Paul.Rarey@ssf-sys.dhl.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <m0pKbES-0008W9C@oldcolo.com> from "Dave Hughes" at Jan 13, 94 04:13:39 pm
Reply-To: jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us
>
> On Jan 11, 11:59, Peter Deutsch wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Internet in a box
> } [ You wrote: ]
> }
> } >
> } > > 2) Once the end user has this (or any other IP) capability what purpose
> } > > does the BBS serve?
...much debate delted...
Much of this has concerned itself with local/global issues of support,
control, content, and storage and so on. Yet I think that is all
a bit off the question (as I intended it anyway). The BBS model
(as I see it now) has a narrow interface between the user's system
and the BBS, with the more general/wider interface being pushed
beteen the BBS and other resoruces (netwide or local). This seems
to underutilize the users system and to constrain the user<->app
interface or at least to complicate it with another client-server
layer. The BBS may (or may not) evolve into a local net resource and
may (or may not) even thrive in that mode, but I see no reason
that the users view of a BBS should be technically different
than any other net resource, even if it is a commonly accessed one.
More simply (perhaps) now the BBS seems like the users "home", and
I see that characteristic moving to his own system, and the BBS being
(if it lasts) just a local resource accessed like any other on the net.
-jrg
