[11350] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed (as presented to the public at
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ALAN DORN HETZEL JR)
Wed Mar 30 03:32:27 1994
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 08:13:03 EST
From: ALAN DORN HETZEL JR <dorn@indigo.mese.com>
To: barb.dijker@labyrinth.com
Cc: COM-PRIV@lists.psi.com, dorn@indigo.mese.com
Well, actually, a DIRECT connection to the CIX is NOT required. In fact,
for your $10K/year, a direct connection is NOT included. If you want a
direct connection, there is an extra $5K/year. By the way, the extra $5K
gets you a connection at any speed you can manage to haul to the CIX
location, could be 16K, could be T3, could be anything in between. Nothing
in the CIX agreement specifies speed of connection. This is the way it's
actually set up. When you connect via SprintLink, you are getting the $10K
rate instead of the $15K rate because the CIX doesn't have to add a port
to their router to support you, but you still have to join because while
SprintLinks membership covers you as a direct customer of them, it doesn't
cover your IP customers... I hope this made some sense.
Dorn
