[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 21:07 on 01/12/98
about "RE: RE: Home networks":
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>Providing the extra capacity to cope with such usage will not come
free and
>even if it did the NHS can't be seen to condone the private use of NHS
>resources.
The NHS needs GPs to be connectd to the NHS network so it can be
happy about security and technical standards (we are told)
GPs are self-employed and in independent businesses remunerated by a
complex mixture of allowances and payments - one part of which may
well be that conditions which would cause the inland Revenue to
descend upon building contractors are not investigated...
GPs commonly, perhaps invariably even, carry on non-NHS business
from their surgeries and using equipment which is also used for work
contracted with the NHS.
We are going back to the bit where we decide that GPs, in order to
do the sort of thing that GPs do (the definition of what general
practice is<g>) will need to have an official NHS Network
connection, and in orde to do the sort of things that GPs _also_ do
will have to have an ordinary ISP connection...
And that the ordianry ISP connection is capable of as far as the
ordinary jobbing doctor can see doing anything for them that the NHS
one can do...
GPs commonly do some of their work from home.
And will soon commonly want to access the surgery from home, and
perhaps vice versa.
So, if the NSH wants to specify the connection, and maintain the
security and functionality of the network, it must provide a network
which does everything that GPs need or want - not the lowest common
denominator, or the average, but as near as possible to the
aspirations of the right hand end of the distribution of the population
here.
>When the inevitable happens and some GPs son (or some GP) is caught
>using vast amounts of bandwidth running some dubious porn ring the NHS
at
>least to be able to say they were using the service outside its
acceptable use
>policy.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7171/1470
<g>
Seriously, bandwidth notwithstanding, the only identifiable cost of
information transmitted over an internet connection
is the ink used to print the itemised bill.
The cost of separating and invoicing is going to be greater than the
cost of simply providing.
The ability to secure a network intended to cover all needs is far
greater than the ability to secure a network which will result in
people, with plausible appearances of innocent confusion, making
additional connections, and those not being under the protective
umbrella of either NHS TB, _or a traditional GP system supplier_ -
unless Meditel is planning to support users who connect to NHS Net
and then run another connection fro whatever else they want to do.
>-----Original Message-----
>From:Adrian Midgley [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>SNIP
>
>And to reduce total costs, we should be anabled not to need a separate
ISP for
>ourselves and family at home.
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