[ih] AUP revision to allow commercial traffic

[John Curran]

On Dec 22, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org> wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know more about the *kinds* of interconnections that were
> legal, illegal, feasible, and/or commonly used back in those early days?
> E.G., was there any distinction between full IP connectivity (pass IP
> datagrams), versus limited protocol connectivity (perhaps FTP/SMTP
> only?). versus single-purpose connectivity (email only)?
> 
> What did the "outsiders" do when they were first allowed to somehow
> interconnect to the public Internet?  Seems like that part of the story
> might be of historical interest....


Jack - 

In 1993, Mark Miller wrote an "ISP Buyers Guide” for Network World which became quite 
well known and covered many of the various issues that businesses had to deal with when 
connecting to the early commercial Internet - 

<https://books.google.com/books?id=nREEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA33&ots=isOuG1ry71&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false <https://books.google.com/books?id=nREEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA33&ots=isOuG1ry71&pg=PA31#v=onepage&q&f=false>>

It’s great reading, noting the various access speeds and options, NSFNET AUP compliance
(since it was still technically operative for traffic traversing it to destination, and thus up to 
each company to decide how they’d handle), support issues, etc.

FYI,
/John

p.s. Oh, yes, also worth reading Vint Cerf’s related sidebar on page 36
       entitled “Society reaches out” (i.e. about The Internet Society) 


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