[1140] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: FOLLOWUP Point, Was -> Re: Forwarded from PACS-L Digest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Aug 9 15:06:40 1991
To: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Cc: "Allan H. Weis" <weis@nis.ans.net>,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 09 Aug 91 14:37:09 -0400.
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 91 15:04:52 EDT
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
let's examine the current interconnectivity of the commericail e-mail
providers.
MCIMAIL has an (unnamed, and as far as I can tell not mapped anywhere!)
link from Ann Arbor to Reston which the Ann Arbor end is "uav76.merit.edu".
MCIMAIL.COM, if you telnet to the SMTP port, is really nri.reston.va.us.
SPRINTMAIL lands on sprint.com which is really sprintf.merit.edu.
As best I can determine SPRINTMAIL <-> MCIMAIL traffic would pass from
Reston to Ann Arbor without touching the NSFnet backbone.
COMPUSERVE traffic goes via the "compuserve-gw.alter.net" gateway to
"iha.compuserve.com". Alternet, a CIX member, carries this traffic.
UUNET traffic and UUPSI traffic go (as best possible) via CIX; I'd
have to confirm that a traceroute from uunet.uu.net to uu.psi.com
doesn't pass through any NSF/ANS/MCI/IBM bitpipes along the way.
So, here's what appears to be true:
UUNET-UUPSI-COMPUSERVE interconnects are OK and work now via CIX
MCIMAIL-SPRINTMAIL interconnects are OK and work now via
an unknown, unnamed, unannounced connection
A single T1 line from Reston to Falls Church with appropriate
routing constructs would be more than adequate for
commerical mail interconnections
Access to the MCIMAIL-SPRINTMAIL axis is not for sale as far
as I can tell at this point, but access to the
UUNET-UUPSI-COMPUSERVE triangle has prices and
customers
A new commerical mail system, or one which I have not mentioned
yet, has some alternatives open
--Ed
