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In article <23360A@erik.naggum.no> Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no> writes:
   Hah!  What freedom?  Freedom of access, but only if you were already
   connected.  Five years ago, this was not an easy job, and it has been
   far from free.  If you, as a communications consultant should get
   Internet access or e-mail access to these documents, you would pay
   through your nose for telecommunication services, too.  That's _my_
   biggest cost, by almost an order of magnitude.

I'm actually located in England at the moment, and use the same IP provider
as Phil. The cost of this service (dialup SLIP/PPP at V32bis/V42bis) is
a grand total of #10 per month, plus phone bills.

   That depends.  OSI is spreading faster than Internet protocols did with
   the same distribution.  The Internet growth is approaching linear
   growth, while we're only in the early exponential phase of OSI

That's not strictly accurate, unless you're plotting the Internet growth on
a logarithmic scale. It was still exponential in July. I don't know 
about the OSI growth patterns; however the moral loss of the Janet community
to JIPS ought to have sent things into a bit of a slide. Since Janet 
was supposed to be an OSI flagship, and since people are only using the OSI
side of things when they are forced to at budget-point, this is a major 
climbdown. Negative exponential is still exponential though.

Simon


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