[11259] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Proposal for CIX membership fees
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Sun Mar 27 12:17:13 1994
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 10:57:07 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Proposal to current member of CIX:
FYI: BARRNet's prices from last year (may not be current) were based on
(a) the size of the pipe, and (b) whether you were a non-profit, a service
provider, or a company (in increasing price order), and within group the
actual price charged was based on each entity's income (or budget). No
mention of anything related to usage, number of machines, etc.
It strikes me that since no scheme I've seen here for CIX terms is
objective enough to work to most people's satisfaction, how about setting
the CIX member fee in a similar manner:
Example:
If any one connection provides more than three machines IP access to the
net, you need to join the CIX... (this part is VERY rough wording, but it
should be clear that it means anyone providing IP-type access to more than
three different machines)
Locate your annual income (or budget for non-profits) and the size of the
largest pipe (or if you prefer, the SUM of ALL of your pipes) that connects
you to the CIX and that cell is your membership fee.
(membership fee for non-profits would be 60% of the fee listed)
Connection to the CIX Your annual income or budget
speed <200K <1mil <10mil <100mil >100 mil
<56kb $250 $500 $1000 $2500 $5000
56kb $500 $1000 $2000 $4000 $8000
T1 $1000 $2000 $4000 $8000 $16000
>T1 $2000 $4000 $8000 $16000 $32000
There. That is clear, objective, related to the reality of the situation.
An ISP just starting out would have a lower fee to help them get going.
Once going, any ISP's fee would be based on their revenue which is related
to how well they're doing reselling IP service. It's also directly related
to the size of the connection to the CIX (ie. how much you potentiall can
use the CIX).
I think these numbers would work, but some CIX members would likely object
(like the ones that started the CIX) since they would have to pay more.
But I *DO* believe that some sequence like the above is what's needed. If
you want to top out at $10K, fine -- then work down from there and the
low-end fees will be even less than in my chart above.
With this, approach (based on pipe and income) even a small co-op could
afford it, and all universities would have to join too -- but they could
well afford it.
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Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
(415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
