[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Jorge Amodio]

Hi Alejandro,

where and from whom did you "hear" that ?

mid 80's was very early on, no commercial isps yet. NSF started to sponsor
the network in 1985. NSFNet came online in 1986.

Regards
Jorge


On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hello There,
>
>    I think this is the right list to ask.  My apologies if my comments
> are not accurate.
>
>    I have heard a couple of times that there was a moment in the history
> of the Internet where private companies were putting pressure on the
> community indicating that the Internet had to be controlled by a private
> company, that it had to be in the hands of someone, not in their free
> will. Is it so?. I think these comments used to occur when there was a
> big failure in the network (I think I've heard mostly when there were
> congestion control issues).., probably in the mid 80's or so.
>
>    Am I crazy or the above actually happened? If so, I'm looking for
> information, documentation, references, etc. If I'm wrong nothing
> happen, just let me know :-)
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Alejandro,
>
>
>
>
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