Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

[Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
 
Hi,

> > To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to 
> > work like internet
>
> You are misunderstanding.  The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure 
> in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is.  End users 
> have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on 
> their phones outside their home country).

He has a point. Remember "Het Net"* as it was before they proxiet to the
real internet. Users expected the internet and after a while, they got
it.

-- 
Sabri

please do not throw salami pizza away


* "Het Net", translated as "The Net" was an attempt by the dutch
national telco in the late 90's to come up with a big intranet where
users could dialup, using RFC1918 addresses and visit community and
commercial sites. After a few months, proxy-support to the real internet
was added and even later it was integrated into Planet.nl, a dutch
dsl-isp.