Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Remote database services ???
Message-ID: <306@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 07:16:52 GMT
References: <34890@apple.Apple.COM> <[A.ISI.EDU]24-Sep-89.13:22:03.CERF>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
Lines: 14

In article <[A.ISI.EDU]24-Sep-89.13:22:03.CERF> CERF@A.ISI.EDU writes:
>Pat,
>hosts that need this kind of bandwidth).  It is the hope of the
>NREN sponsors that the system will eventually be feasible as a
>commercial offering and that direct government involvement in its
>operation can be minimized and perhaps completely eliminated.

Wonder how long until the Internet turns into a commercial common carrier? I
can only hope as a international user that when (and if) it happens that
it's trans-national in scope. I'd hate to have to deal with bureaucrats in
Ontario (Canadian bureaucrats have to be seen to be believed!).

-- 
Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)