[11399] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: the whole CIX concept is flawed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Mar 31 13:01:28 1994
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 10:33:03 -0500
From: Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed
George Herbert <gwh@crl.com> writes:
>Ignoring some of the blatant 'the CIX is evil' viewpoints,
>there have been valid issues brought up in this thread,
I wanted to clarify, since this may be referring to some of my posts, that
I don't think the "CIX is evil". I appreciate the fact that it has served
a useful purpose and the people running it I assume are well intentioned
and have done what they felt was right, and either don't agree or didn't
realize the point of view I've expressed here. Political reasons and
practicalities may have lead to this situation of necessity (I don't know
enough about the past politics), however regardless I'm pointing out that
things don't need to be this way now or in the future. We can and should
come up with better policies.
The nature of the policies is seperate from the intent or nature of the
people, they may inadvertantly be coming up with policies which I happen to
think aren't right, that doesn't say the "CIX is evil", just that some of
their policies may be "misguided" in my point of view. Any criticism is
intended towards the current state of affairs and possible future change,
not in whatever it took for things to get where they are now which may have
been the same decisions I would have arrived at the time, I've got no
comments not having been involved at the time.
In new situations it often isn't apparent (or agreed upon), what the
correlation is to previous situations (industries, legal situations,
whatever), and how to use analogies.
The analogies I've made to "protection money", etc., are to demonstrate a
point, that the current model doesn't work and is really headed towards (or
at) a situation that doesn't seem ethical or more importantly logical,
whether that was intended or understood before or not. I've perhaps used
strong words to get people to think and to understand what it is that they
are doing, that if you look at the analogy I don't see much difference
really, even if the situation was innocently arrived at. Sometimes over
strong analogies are necessary to get people to think.
