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Conference on the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (USERLHUM%UBCMTSL.BITNET@RICEVM1.RI)
Fri May 1 16:45:58 1992
Date: Fri, 1 May 1992 15:07:22 CDT
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From: USERLHUM%UBCMTSL.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
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I have been waiting to see whether anyone else would mention
something about a conference sponsored by Telestrategies, Inc.
called Internet: a Government Network Going Private. It's
addressed to "Executives" and the opening paragraph says:
"The Internet, a government-owned high-speed data network inter-
commecting academic and R&D facilities nationwide, has been
targeted for privatization. The consequences of doing this are
tremendous. To begin with, a privatized Internet has the potential
to become the first national public megabit multi-media service
network infrastructure. ... A major hurdle for those carriers
looking to Internet for their inter- and intra-enterprise
networking solutions if the complex and poorly understood transition
process of going from a government-owned to a private network.
...
TheY conference will provide a forum where leaders in the
telecommunications and computer industries can jointly explore the
impact of a privatized internet and examine the related issues
of access, cost, control and competition."
The conference was held April 21-22 in Reston, VA. Does anyone
on Pacs-l know anything more about this? Is there a need to be
alarmed about this privatization?
Elizabeth Caskey
Humanities/Social Sciences Div.
University of British Columbia
1956 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, Canada
V6T 1Z1
Elizabeth_Caskey@library.ubc.ca
