[11404] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
The simple equation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Davis)
Thu Mar 31 17:43:30 1994
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 12:55:41 -0500
From: Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
To: com-priv@lists.psi.com
For the $10K/yr a network provider pays the CIX, they get contractually
guaranteed non-AUP no-settlement routing to the direct customers of all
other CIX members.
That's it. Bing.
If you don't think those contractual guarantees are worth $10K/yr, by all
means, don't pay it. You'll probably get the packets routed anyway. Of
course, if you're running a business, "probably" may not be good enough
for your customers.
This is a business decision that each ISP will have to make for
themselves.
It is not "extortion". It is not "protection money". If you think that
appeals to the enlightened self-interest of other ISPs will get your
packets routed, that's fine. Again, it probably will.
I can get to Digex (since they've already been used as an example in this
discussion) just fine. I can get to clark.net (also mentioned in this
discussion) without a hitch. And so on.
Clearly, Karl feels that the $10K/yr is money well spent to provide better
guarantees to his customers. Clearly, "nowhere" disagrees (vehemently :-).
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* Christopher Davis * <ckd@kei.com> * (was <ckd@eff.org>) * MIME * [CKD1] *
"It's 106 ms to Chicago, we've got a full disk of GIFs, half a meg of
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