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Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
From: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:42:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:
I'm not sure we're over the hump yet, economically. Right now if all we had for content is the set of self supporting (profitable) sites who could afford to pay metered rates for the packets they emit, it would slow down the growth rate.
Right. Many people don't know that the Internet is version 2 of the net. Version 1 of the net was metered from the transport structure right out to the content level. It flopped.
Let's take the golden eggs as they come out rather than killing the goose.
What an apt description of version 1 of the net! P.S. version one used X.25 instead of IP and NAPLPS instead of HTML and was called the Videotex industry. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael () memra com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS, (continued)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Alan Hannan (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul Ferguson (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Vadim Antonov (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Tim Salo (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Matt Ranney (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul A Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Avi Freedman (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Michael Dillon (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Paul A Vixie (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Curtis Villamizar (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Matt Ranney (Aug 28)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Hong Chen (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Perry E. Metzger (Aug 29)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Dick St.Peters (Aug 29)