[68724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Mon Mar 15 23:05:00 2004
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>,
Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu, brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:00:21 GMT."
<Pine.GSO.4.58.0403160256330.15373@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:08:42 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > I'll take "the right customer base" for $50 please Alex.
>
> which is NOT the current dsl/cable-modem user, obviously?
Correct.
> > Rick Adams and Mike O'Dell had an idea in 1987. How is this any different?
> >
>
> mumble, mumble giant telephone company mumble mumble... In all
> seriousness, I'm not sure this is any different. Their idea, if I got it
> right, was 'ip everywhere'. Perhaps providing smaller scale 'good' colo
> with strong abuse/support is possible, just don't get greedy and get
> gigantic.
The original idea was for USENIX to fund provisioning commercial UUCP
and Usenet access. Go beyond the Federal green-stamp and .edu gardens,
which was NOT the same as going into direct competition with The Well.
It was sparse. It went beyond the then-edge of UUCP and Usenet provisioned
transport and content, but it assumed the existance of a damping function,
and at this point in time, it isn't a waste of time to mull over both of
the positions argued later by Eric Allman and Peter Honneyman.
Eric
