[11346] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: All CIX members are equal redux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Mar 30 01:52:07 1994
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 22:53:11 -0800
From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
To: com-priv@psi.com, smd@cesium.clock.org
>From: Sean Doran <smd@cesium.clock.org>:
> Finally, ANS could adjust
> its routing system so that it allowed only itself, its direct
> customers, and its gateway customers who are also CIX members to route
> traffic to CIX-WEST.
>
> The third alternative is obviously what the CIX board would like
> to see, and I believe that the CIX board's opinion is both
> broadly representative of the CIX membership's and in the
> membership's best interests.
This is ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY different from what's been discussed recently.
There's a MAJOR difference between "allow connections, but only
guarantee connectivity in the case of CIX membership and a direct
customer relationship" and "force certain CIX connectees (namely ANS,
but who knows how many more in the future) to implement router
filtering to specifically block access"
I DON'T want to see the CIX board decide to do this, because it looks
EXACTLY like restraint of trade, and that'd mean that when I become
a CIX member, I'll be subject to additional legal liability that I don't
want. I also don't want to join and have filtering requirements
forced down my throat.
-matthew
