[10952] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
California NAP Designed as a CIX Killer??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Tue Mar 15 22:42:03 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 19:41:20 PST
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: cook@pandora.sf.ca.us
Just wondering about the situation with the California NAP and the CIX. I am
thinking that a lot of folk might expect the CIX would join the NAP which after
all is to be a free interconnect point between networks.... sort of like the CIX
.... right?
Except the problem is that NAPs don't rule out settlements between members
right? And the CIX does. Besides the whole point of joining the CIX is to get
settlement free routing to all CIX members? If the CIX were to join the
California NAP, you'd get routing from all other NAP members to all the CIX
members without having to pay the CIX fee. In such a case the CIX might as well
disband.
So it looks like there will be two major internet interconnect centers in the
San francisco area. Must new service providers who want connectivity to
everyone go to the expense of connecting to both CIX and CAL NAP? Or will
sprint, which has committed itself in this forum to join the NAPs, act as a
settlement free bridge between the Catholic and Protestant wings of an otherwise
fractured American internet?
