[11252] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Options (was Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Sun Mar 27 06:32:45 1994
To: marc@MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 12:49:57 +0100 (MET)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com, tenney@netcom.com
In-Reply-To: <9403250502.AA21240@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> from "Marc Horowitz" at Mar 25, 94 00:02:50 am
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
>
> Turning black-and-white into fractal uncertainty,
>
The problem is that it is -always- trivial to create borderline cases
that we can argue about the whole day.
I would suggest you ask yourself the following questions:
- do you (MITnet) have a financial interest in your operations
(with other words: are you running a business)?
- would something serious happen if you lost connectivity to
a CIX members customers (have you been signing contracts
guaranteeing access to CIX members and would you be charged
with fraud if somebody finds out that you can't do it)?
- are you competing with a CIX member for customers?
If the answer is 3 times yes, then I would consider CIX membership a
very, very sensible thing to obtain.
Simon Poole
