[11139] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANS and the CIX - have they really connected?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Tue Mar 22 13:27:01 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 10:18:11 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Karl Denninger's message of Sat, 19 Mar 1994 22:32:14 -0600 (CST) <m0piFBO-000BbnC@mercury.mcs.com>
>> $4k buyin for single geographical area providers, $10k for nationals,
>> and existing agreement stands in other areas.
>>
>> -george william herbert
>
>suggestion that I could get behind. Add to that a clause that all companies
>owned or substantially (use the SEC rules, say, 5%) controlled by a parent
>or interlocking directorate count for the purposes of determining whether
>you are a "single" or "multiple". That prevents the shell games that get
>played by many firms to avoid exactly this issue.
Simpler solution: make it $5k instead of $4k, and then there's no
point in shell games, since you don't pay any less for two single-area
providers than for one national. It'll save a lot of bile.
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