[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Bob Hinden]

The reminds me of the quote I heard attributed to Danny Cohn (https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/danny-cohen)

In the US the private networks are public, and the public networks are private.

Bob


> On Dec 5, 2022, at 11:31 AM, Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Hello There,
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>   I think this is the right list to ask.  My apologies if my comments are not accurate.
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>   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.
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>   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 :-)
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> Thanks,
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> 
> Alejandro,
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