[11152] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
He's dead, Jim
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Mar 23 00:30:41 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 12:58 EST
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: com-priv@lists.psi.com
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 19:06:26 EST
From: Dick St.Peters
... my perspective differs from Matthew's:
- I do not want to be a provider
- I do want to be a customer
- The price of becoming a customer is high here
- I'd like to lower the cost for myself and some others by sharing
a line with them
- The CIX says if I do this I'm a reseller
- The CIX fee would make our costs go up, not down
Exactly what Dick sez, in spades for me.
But there's something here that no one has pointed out. The CIX is an
agreement between providers to carry direct customer's traffic. It
does NOT disallow people from carrying indirect traffic. And it seems
that the status quo is to carry indirect traffic.
Let's not assign an unreasonable degree of unreasonableness to the current
CIX members.
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