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