[9950] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NSF AUP restrictions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (perry@stars.reston.paramax.com)
Sat Jan 29 17:51:25 1994
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 15:58:55 EST
From: perry@stars.reston.paramax.com
To: clays@panix.com, perry@stars.reston.paramax.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Clay, I am not certain that we won't see a smiliar greater increase in
use as the bandwidth becomes available. May applications today are
not doable on the net because of bandwidth, but when it becomes
available, one will not see just more of the same, but more of a
use that uses more bandwidth than apps do today. This would give the
same effect as you indicate.
dennis
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>From: Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com>
>They have stopped building extensions on the Long Island Expressway
>because the last time they did a traffic volume analysis, they found
>that any increase in available roadway was accompanied by an even
>larger increase in the number of drivers attempting to use it, actually
>worsening the problems the additional black top was meant to ameliorate.
>
>They also did something similar in lower Manhattan where they found
>that their attempts to alleviate gridlock instead made driving in the
>city more attractive and increased congestion, so they have recently
>shortened the yellow light cycle again to increase girdlock in some
>places in an effort to redirect traffic.
>
>Given that adding space to the infomation highway doesn't take it out
>of circulation for other uses, as it does with roads in the physical
>world, I don't know how applicable the highway model is to the net,
>but in downstate New York highway design an increase in available
>resources brings an even greater number of users and a net loss in
>system fluidity.
>
>--
>Clay Shirky
>
