[11044] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Background and history of the CIX?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Fri Mar 18 18:36:49 1994
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 11:22:51 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 9:59 AM 3/18/94 -0500, bukys@cs.rochester.edu wrote:
>... Why you think that allocating one IP address
>to a customer is not reselling, I don't know. It looks like re-sale to me
Getting more people to use the Internet is a good thing. Forcing people
to use Unix is NOT a good thing. There are other alternatives, but some of
them require the person's desktop machine having an IP address. That is
not reselling to me.
Perhaps we really need to review the history of the CIX -- who started it,
why was it started?
I recall, perhaps mistakenly, that the CIX was started because some NSPs
felt that NSPs who were NAPs were charging them too much, and the CIX was
set up to keep it so that only NSPs like "them" would be in the CIX.
Does anyone have good info on the background and history of the CIX...?
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Glenn Tenney
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