[9974] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: networkMCI ads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Galloway)
Mon Jan 31 18:44:58 1994
From: John Galloway <jrg@rahul.net>
To: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:43:34 -0800 (PST)
Cc: raisch@internet.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <2d4d7ee5.crynwr@crynwr.com> from "Russell Nelson" at Jan 31, 94 04:57:54 pm
Reply-To: jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us
>
> 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.
"Mirros" might not be quite the way it works out, i.e. it seems unlikely
that the FTP/publisher site an author uess will mirror their own home (e.g.)
ftp-able directory (or maybe I'm being to literal). But the idea is
accurate. Diverse authorship does not imply selfpublishing.
Further the idea that all users shold be provided the bandwidth to become
selfpublishers is absurd since a publisher must by definition have an
outgoing pipe equal to N times the size of the clients incomming pipe.
So unless you want N to be 1, so each client is using a unique publisher
who is providing data to exactly that one client (which seems silly) most
users will end up utilizing a server/service to publish their content, and
thus most users will be able to use a bigger incomming pipe than an
outgoing one and hybrid or asymetrical bandwidth netowrks make perfect sense.
-jrg
