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Article #574Re: Growing commercial use of Internet
From: Simon Poole
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:59
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:59
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George Michaelson (ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au) wrote: .... : Simon, its not as simple as it should be. AARN "owners" have resisted all : attempts to date that redefined the mandate to include non-research oriented : people as 'peers' ... : Unless/Until AARN opens the doors a bit wider, I think full bore commercial : IP with connectivity back to the USA is a way off. The head of steam needed : to fund the basic links is being used up on the existing network. The situation is Australia doesn't seem to be all to complicated in comparision to Europe and the amount of politics involved seems to be fairly limited. The real question is: does AARNET have commercial ambitions of its own, or will it support the developement of a competitive market? In particular will it be possible for alternative service providers to have peer agreements with AARNET and local connections, or will AARNET try to establish a monopoly? -- CHUUG/EUnet Switzerland Simon Poole Zweierstrasse 35 Tel: +41 1 291 45 80 poole@eunet.ch CH-8004 Zuerich Fax: +41 1 291 46 42 S=poole;P=EUnet;A=EUnet;C=CH
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d2f7,a21ee19f0ccc95b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d2f7,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-10 04:58:04 PST Newsgroups: aus.aarnet Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!umn.edu!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!chsun!poole From: poole@chsun.chuug.ch (Simon Poole) Subject: Re: Growing commercial use of Internet Message-ID: <1993Mar10.115957.11642@chsun.chuug.ch> Organization: CHUUG/EUnet X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <C3nrFw.EKF@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:59:57 GMT Lines: 26