Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

Mon Jul 14 16:59:25 UTC 2014

On 14July2014Monday, at 9:52, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

> 
> On July 14, 2014 at 08:17 dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker) wrote:
>> On 7/12/2014 3:19 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
>>> On July 12, 2014 at 12:08 randy at psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote:
>>>> or are you equating shell access with isp?  that would be novel.  unix
>>>> shell != internet.
>>> 
>>> You mean when you sat at a unix shell using a dumb terminal on a
>>> machine attached to the internet in, say, 1986 you didn't think you
>>> were "on the internet"?
>> 
>> 
>> An question with more nuance than most folk tend to realize:
>> 
>>   To Be "On" the Internet
>> 
>>   March, 1995
>>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1775
> 
> How about "Vicarious Access":
> 
>  No physical connection but people keep coming into your office to tell
>  about some dopey thing they just read or saw on the internet.
> 
> 
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
> 
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Therein lies the fallacy of the “air-gap”   …   sometimes 3meters is not wide enough.

/bill