but that by "on the internet" i
think we mean having unincumbered availability of the common application
protocols, email, http, ftp, ssh, ...
I'd go farther than that. Internet access includes only only the
ability to use the common protocols, but also the uncommon ones -
indeed, any protocol that works over IP.
some folks tend to think that as long as the popular protocols
(as measured by counts of packets with certain port numbers)
are handled this is good enough. there are at least two fallacies
here - (1) it assumes that the Internet is static and that no
new protocols need be accomodated and (2) it assumes that there
is a relationship between the amount of bandwidth used by a protocol
and the importance of that protocol.
IMHO, one of the most important features of the Internet is its
flexibility, and in particular, its ability to handle arbitrary
protocols as long as they can run over IP.
Keith