[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Jorge Amodio]

There was a fundamental shift in the mid 90's after the Telecom Act of 1996.

Ma'Bell was 100% gone.

Al Gore contributed a lot of momentum and support for the expansion of the
Internet beyond the academic arena, there were several well established
ISPs, direct support from NFS started to fade.

With the Telecom Act a bunch of CLECs, Worldcoms, TCG, etc, flourished
until their implosion years later.

The Internet Fever Rush and stock market baloon started around that time,
and Postel's notepad becoming overloaded.

Regards
Jorge


On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 4:41 PM Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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