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From: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.225231.17042@uu.psi.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 22:52:31 GMT
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Reply-To: schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall)
Organization: Performance Systems International, Inc.
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I don't think that eveyone needs to scrap the NSFNet right now, especially
since it is free.  What we need to consider are several levels of
service/capabilities/restrictions in the US and Internationally.

For those organizations willing to abide by the restrictions let them
have the academic regionals and NSFNet.  For those who don't let
them leave and migrated to TYMNET, TELENET, ALTERNET, PSINET, and XYZNet.

Of course in october 92 when the NSFNet funding is finished there will
probably be even more choices.  Because as a good friend of mine said
once:  who can compete with free?

Marty
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>Karl, there is a *much* simpler solution. Scrap NSFNet. We don't need it. T1
>and 64K DDS lines are ***cheap*** these days, so cheap that UUNet can build
>a truly commercial TCP/IP service, give excellent service, and charge less
>than $2000/month for it.
>
>NSFNet is the government's network. Let them have it for anyone who wants to
>live under the government's terms and conditions. Just as the Europeans are
>throwing off the yokes of their PTTs, it's time for us to throw off the yoke
>of state-sponsored communications networks, and start building our own.