[ih] OSI and alternate reality

[Greg Skinner]

On Mar 15, 2024, at 9:14 AM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
> 
> imho, what made the Internet a resounding success was the "flat rate and
> sender keeps all cost nature" of connection -- i.e. the lack of
> "settlements" for traffic transited between interconnected networks as is
> the case with the PSTN and was the case with the interconnected X
> networks...  there was A Very Pivotal Moment in Internet history where...
> that almost didn't happen, viz.:
> 
> *Data Network Raises Monopoly Fear*
> By JOHN MARKOFF
> The New York Times
> December 19, 1991
> http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/19/business/data-network-raises-monopoly-fear.html

For more about this, see "Management of NSFNET. Hearing before the Subcommittee
on Science of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One
Hundred Second Congress, Second Session.” [1]

--gregbo

[1] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED350986.pdf