[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Alejandro Acosta]

Hello Jorge,


On 5/12/22 5:17 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> where and from whom did you "hear" that ?


I heard that many years ago, I recall something about it during an 
online training, however, I could have misunderstood or did not pay 
enough attention in that moment.


Based in your comments I think it's just false.


Thank you all for the clarification.


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


That's right



Thanks again,


Alejandro,


>
> 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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