[11183] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Options (was Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Thu Mar 24 09:54:11 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 12:10:09 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com, Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.com>
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 5:15 PM 3/22/94 -0600, Dave Nordlund wrote:
>If I have 32 users on a terminal server (running SLIP) through a router
>on a 56 Kb link the link is not any more loaded than with 32 users
>logged in to shell accounts doing the same thing over a 56 Kb link from
>the UNIX box. ...
> COMPUTING SERVICES NORDLUND@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU
> UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 913/864-0450
Karl,
Here's an example of a university on the Net (actually, I'd suspect it's
the same as every university on the net). None of their machines are
directly connected to any ISP. Isn't the university itself an ISP (in your
terms) since they are routing packets from multiple machines (multiple IP
addresses) via a router to the net?
If so, then EVERY university must (again, by your definitions) join the
CIX... Let's see, places such as Stanford have a thousand machines all
passing packets through BARRNet to the Net... None of those machines is
directly connected to BARRNet (they go through routers), so Stanford would
have to join the CIX????? Yeah, right!
If not, then why is any university a "legit" exemption from your definitions...?
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Glenn Tenney
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