[10960] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANS and the CIX - have they really connected?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postm)
Wed Mar 16 14:43:34 1994
From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 11:41:25 -0800
Many moons ago, BARRNET and NEARNET concluded a deal with ANS for ANS
to carry their traffic to the CIX (and back), so that those regionals
could avoid a whole host of nasty routing problems, and also offer
their customers complete commercial connectivity. This was the impetus
for ANS to physically connect to the CIX, but it did not become a
member of the CIX at that time.
Last fall, in this forum, ANS announced that it was finally going to
join the CIX (which in this context means doing full routing exchange
for their direct customers - remember that the T1 to the CIX from ANS
has been in place for some time), which would have completed the
connectivity of the commercial section of the Internet.
Apple is a CERFNET customer, among others. We get full routing from the
CIX through them, which is to say that I can see all the routes in that
router, and, because we speak BGP to get that routing, I can see from
whence the routes come.
I examined the routes we're getting from the CIX through CERFNET this
morning. It looks like SURANET, WESTNET, and NORTHWESTNET have done
the same deal as BARRNET and NEARNET (ANS carriage to/from CIX), but
aside from one IBM AS, and a few marked "NSF/ANS test" at the NIC, I
don't see ANS's commercial customers. I did specifically check for
Digital Express, since they've been discussed in this forum, and are
known to be an ANS commercial customer. They're not there.
Which leaves me with the question: Hey, ANS, what's holding things up?
Why aren't there routes to your commercial customers in the CIX?
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
