[11275] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed (as presented to the public at
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Mon Mar 28 06:40:08 1994
To: nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Anonymous)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 17:12:51 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403261524.AA16145@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> from "Anonymous" at Mar 26, 94 10:24:34 am
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
You (however you are) seem to have a large number of misconceptions
about the Internet and the role of the CIX.
-Nobody- guarentees you connectivity to the whole Internet. I might
decide tomorrow that you are competing with us for the same customers
and decide to stop routing packets to you, effectivly closing you
out of the market, -nobody- will come rushing up to help you.
Currently (one day there might be more) being a CIX member is the
only effective method of getting some assurances of connectivity
to at least the commercial providers.
I consider myself to be a bit of the expert on the matter. When
we started providing EUnet services here in Switzerland again three
years ago, our major competitior tried to bully us out of the market
by blocking traffic to some of our key customers (they kept this
up for nearly a year). We had -no- recourse, nobody helped us and
undoubtably it nearly killed us.
Talking to prospective customers and finding out that while they
would really like to connect to you (because of price, service and
so on), but found it impossible because our competitior had told them
that they would immediately block traffic to them, is not my idea of
fun.
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EUnet Switzerland Simon Poole
Zweierstrasse 35 Tel: +41 1 291 45 80
CH-8004 Zuerich Fax: +41 1 291 46 42 poole@eunet.ch
