[9972] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: networkMCI ads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Jan 31 18:13:21 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 16:57:54 EST
From: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
On Mon, 31 Jan 1994 10:51:38 -0800 (PST), "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com> wrote:
> By providing a connection to the GII which supports large bandwidth
> inwards (to the home) and only a small connection outwards (away from the
> home), ...
>
> There are those (myself included) who believe that the real value of the
> global Internet springs from the fact that there are no technological
> differences between the producer and consumer of information.
>
> Even in a world where most do not initially wish to become publishers,
> following a "hybrid networking" solution removes the potential that they
> MIGHT become publishers and this is anathema to the value of what we have
> in the global Internet.
But you really MUST differentiate between real-time publishing and
off-line publishing. I can publish gigabytes of information through
a dial-up IP link IF my customers are accessing my data through
mirrors. The well-reknowned SimTel Repository is not on the
Internet. They publish their collection through mirrors. They
upload the data to the primary mirror, and the secondary mirrors
(nearly a dozen of them) download from the primary mirror.
Keith Petersen could be running SimTel from his home via dial-up IP
for all we know. It doesn't matter.
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