[11072] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Mon Mar 21 17:38:19 1994
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 01:54:39 -0800
From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
To: karl@mcs.com, matthew@echo.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, fair@apple.com, washburn@cix.org
>From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger):
> NOBODY is required to pay $10k. Hell, if you feel this way, don't pay it!
>
> But if you choose not to don't cry when your traffic, as an ISP, is
> refused by other members until and unless you get out your checkbook.
> NOTHING requires MCSNet, PSI, Alternet or any of the other members to
> route your customer's traffic without you paying a settlement charge -
> except that pesky CIX agreement if you happen to be a CIX member.
Ah. But I _want_ to pay the $10k. And then I want MY CUSTOMERS' TRAFFIC
carried by other CIX members. And I want to charge what _I_ choose...
even if I decide to charge $1/year to people who have already paid for
the cost of transporting their data to my POP. I want to have the following
price list:
IP Routing to the Internet, Including CIX.......... $1/year
Connection to my POP via T-1....................... $12000/year
Connection to my POP via ISDN...................... $6000/year
Connection to my POP via customer-provided method.. $0
Note: customer-provided method approved on a
case-by-case basis. IP Routing to the Internet service
ONLY available to customers connected to my POP.
And the customer-provided method can include anything from someone
down the street who wants to lay fiber to my POP to someone who
gets their data to me by sharing bandwidth on a leased line running
to one of my existing customers. (The added cost of which, of course,
that existing customer is welcome to absorb entirely, or share with
the new customer)
Now. Is that acceptable, or is that a "sham"?
Saying "its a sham, because that's not how most IP providers operate
today, so it isn't a normal industry practice, sorry, you're not allowed
to experiment with new business or pricing models" isn't acceptable,
in my opinion.
-matthew
