[11055] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Background and history of the CIX?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sat Mar 19 01:11:38 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 18:55:49 -0600 (CST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199403181923.LAA16297@netcom9.netcom.com> from "Glenn S. Tenney" at Mar 18, 94 11:22:51 am
> 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.
Where did the packet originate? On your desktop
Who routed it? Your provider
That's IP resale.
Note that if you dial into a BBS system, or a Unix shell account, the
answers are:
Where did the packet orginate? On your <provider's> computer
Who routed it? Your provider
That is NOT IP packet resale.
> 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...?
The CIX was started as a response to a perceived market inequity created
when the NSF funded ANS to the tune of several million bucks a year, and
gave them the right to sell access to that which the Government had paid
for.
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