[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Brian E Carpenter]

I can't think of anything like that in the 1980s. It was clear
than the the Internet was a tool (or toy) for the academic and
research community, with a few hangers-on in .com. The serious
network for business was in the planning stage: OSI.

I wonder if this isn't a diffuse echo of the run-up to the
creation of ICANN in 1998? The Clinton/Gore White House was very
keen to see commercialisation of the Internet, and naturally
there was a lot of entrepreneurial interest in that. Some thought
that IANA should be a purely commercial undertaking, some
thought it should be an arm of government or of the ITU, others
thought it should be an independent NGO, and so on.

The delusion that ICANN is in some way in charge of the Internet
has never quite gone away.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 06-Dec-22 09:17, Jorge Amodio via Internet-history wrote:
> 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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