[10972] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS and the CIX - have they really connected?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Farooq Hussain)
Thu Mar 17 00:43:38 1994
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:44:15 -0500
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
From: farooq@sprintlink.net (Farooq Hussain)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Gordon
>Anyone in CIX have a count on how many current CIX members there are?
Your whole line is missing the point. The future is not a CIX members vs
NAPs. The fact is the CIX came about at a time when commercial service
providers felt compelled to peer with NSFNET/ANS. The solicitation has put
and end to this, so the CIX members have to find a new purpose to life. For
the CIX (physical) in Santa Clara may be its bye bye. For CIX members a new
relationship based around a MAE-East concept is probably a HELLO. The NAPs
are not an artifact they are a trading place. The NSf can only help to put
them into being, which is what they are trying to do. The only problem I
can forsee (which does not seem to be the case), is a restraint of trade,
whereby regions are compelled to to connect to a NAP not of there choosing
by federal authority.
Farooq Hussain
