From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelqa!omsvax!bc
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: Proposal for USENET Organization
Article-I.D.: omsvax.283
Posted: Thu Dec 30 09:17:33 1982
Received: Sat Jan  1 01:07:31 1983
References: fortune.710

I like the concept of some central organization taking over the
maintenance of the net, but I wonder if we would not be re-inventing
the wheel.  It seems to me that all the features described in the
USENET Corp. proposal will be provided by CSNET and its relatives.  I
think this alternative needs to be investigated.   If there is anyone
out there with the info, please post here or mail to me for
summarization and posting the answers to the following questions:

1.  What exactly will be the services and features of CSNET?
2.  What will the charges be?
3.  How does a site apply for connection to CSNET?  Especially small
    sites?
4.  How does one instantiate a net based on the CSNET model (a la
    CHEMNET, etc.)?  Converting usenet over might be painful, but a
    UN*XNET starting from scratch, and delimited from CSNET might be
    practical.



				Bruce Cohen
				Intel
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