1996-08-06 - Internet Economics

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
To: jim bell <minow@apple.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-06 03:47:25 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:47:25 +0800

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From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:47:25 +0800
To: jim bell <minow@apple.com>
Subject: Internet Economics
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At 02:22 PM 8/5/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>The current question is how to motivate individuals and companies to invest 
>in improvements to the Internet that will benefit everyone. However, I don't 
>think that will be the limiting factor that it may currently appear to be.  
>Due to the nature of the Internet, there is nothing to prevent a company 
>(such as AOL, Compuserve, or other) from building a shadow version of the 
>Internet, through which all of its customer's traffic will pass until it 
>emerges local to its destination.  

Note that this is the business model for @HOME which will be handling the
heavy lifting for various Internet Over Cable systems around the country.

DCF






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