This issue has been on the burner for a long time... The National Science Foundation's, "exit stage right" last year was irresponsible... As Election '96 heats up and Bill Clinton plugs more schools and parents into the net, people are going to find out that some roads lead to interstate highways and some roads end up nowhere, just like the cover of "The Road Ahead" There are no easy solutions...one thing for sure...money will be the key to survival on the Internet...the Federal Government will likely have to step in to help insure that school children get lunches and their Internet...the Election '96 candidates will have to respond to the serious problems that have been created because of the rapid commercialization of a precious resource... Next November, the candidate with the most IP addresses to "dole" out may be the winner...(no punn intended)... Jim Fleming Naperville, IL P.S. Just think, "Vote for ________ and receive a "routable" IP address"... ---------- From: Paul Ferguson[SMTP:pferguso@cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 6:17 PM To: Larry J. Plato Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Interesting AP Article Perhaps it is 'interesting' because this issue has made it into the mainstream popular press? - paul At 11:24 PM 3/13/96 +0000, Larry J. Plato wrote:

Steve,

I am not really trying to flame you but why is this article interesting? It is really a poorly written rehash of the filtering policy Sprint has discussed for the last 18 months. I don't agree w/ Sprint's position but I don't see this article as being particularly interesting. It's not even very well written. If anything I find it annoying and irresponsible that the author did not seem, IMHO, to research his topic very well. As far as I can tell he neither asked the opinion of Sprint, or any other major NSP, as to why someone would do this. Yet he had the call to title his article "Sprint says ..."

I think this is sloppy, yellow, journalism.

Larry Plato I speak for myself only #include <std.disclaimer>