[11011] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS and the CIX - have they really connected? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Humphrey)
Fri Mar 18 02:10:41 1994
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 13:26:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>According to Washburns Nov 30 message DIGEX is a reseller? Do you agree
>to that Doug? If so perhaps ERIK doesn't "see" Digex because it is not
>a CIX member itself.
Gordon, it isn't as simple as "yes" or "no"... As I understand it
(which is not at ALL to say that it is being done this way currently
by the CIX) it goes like this...
Machines in "digex.net" land and "digex.com" land are all machines that are
either used for our internal business (clearly we are a customer of ANS,
and should benefit from the ANS CIX membership) or for sale of unix shell
accounts only (again, not resale of IP services, should be allowed to
route through the CIX under the ANS membership) or are terminal servers
that are being used to provide part time "Personal-IP (tm)" service
(only a single IP address assigned, not at all intended for routing,
just a way that a customer can trade up from VT100 to real GUI interfaces)
(I feel that those customers should be able to get the CIX access
also, considering that they are not people who we are "reselling" IP
access to, they are just using IP as a personal interface into the net.
Other domains are registered for our IP customers, who we are
reselling to, ranging from SLIP accounts that get class C blocks,
to customers with faster lines.
So, the problem is that we are both a reseller, and a non-reseller.
The ANS CIX membership, as I understand the rules to be today,
effects the two sides of our business differently.
In fact, I would guess that there are a number of "shell account"
sellers out there who are looking at the revenue that is possible
with resale of IP services. Once they start selling any, they are
in the same boat as we; what part of their operations is covered by
their providers CIX membership, and what part if not?
Doug Humphrey
President
Digital Express Group, Inc.
doug@digex.net
