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IP: GROWING PAINS ON THE NET
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:52:58 -0400
Some of the comments are insightful and some silly. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to say which is which djf GROWING PAINS ON THE NET -- from Edupage The inadvertent shutdown of America Online a few weeks ago was only the beginning, say some industry observers, who predict that outages at overburdened Internet providers will become more common in the future. "Maybe for the first time in the history of the Internet, the demand is exceeding the supply that technology can deliver," says the CEO of Advanced Network & Services. Because flat-rate pricing is the dominant Internet service provider business model, there is no financial incentive to conserve the resource, warns the executive VP of Nynex Science & Technology. He predicts that the Internet eventually will collapse under its own weight, but will reemerge with "a lot more tollbooths on that highway than there are now." (Business Week 26 Aug 96 p62)
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