🚀 go-pugleaf

Indeed, there are several companies (NearNet, et al) which have recently
gotten together to provide new backbones for commercial Internet service.
These backbones only provide regional service at the present time, but
my guess is that world-wide non-restricted service will arrive soon.

If your network traffic is confined to, for example, the NearNet backbone
(and avoids NSFnet), you only have to play by the rules of NearNet, and
not of the U.S. Government.

I wouldn't try to use the Internet as a means of setting up dedicated
business applications between branches of a company.  (Things like
credit-card transactions or manufacturing process control...)  But for
research purposes, it's great.

-rich