Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

[manning bill <bmanning () isi edu>]

On 14July2014Monday, at 9:52, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:

> On July 14, 2014 at 08:17 dhc2 () dcrocker net (Dave Crocker) wrote:
> > On 7/12/2014 3:19 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> > > On July 12, 2014 at 12:08 randy () psg com (Randy Bush) wrote:
> > > > or are you equating shell access with isp?  that would be novel.  unix
> > > > shell != internet.
> > >
> > > You mean when you sat at a unix shell using a dumb terminal on a
> > > machine attached to the internet in, say, 1986 you didn't think you
> > > were "on the internet"?
> >
> >
> > An question with more nuance than most folk tend to realize:
> >
> >   To Be "On" the Internet
> >
> >   March, 1995
> >   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1775
>
> How about "Vicarious Access":
>
>  No physical connection but people keep coming into your office to tell
>  about some dopey thing they just read or saw on the internet.
>
>
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
>
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Therein lies the fallacy of the “air-gap”   …   sometimes 3meters is not wide enough.

/bill