[11409] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Use market forces to deal with routing questions & charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Mar 31 21:52:37 1994
To: com-priv@psi.com, gwh@crl.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Mar 1994 11:50:19 EST."
<9403311650.AA09754@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 14:26:03 -0800
From: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>
Re: Anonymous saying...
> I think the CIX is mixing up the issues of providing a backbone with
>guarenteeing cooperative routing, because it should be extremely cheap for
>agreements to be signed, and would encourage much more of the industry to
>come on board without blinking an eye rather than charging what they are.
I would like to disagree with this. I think that the CIX is (almost)
the best way to do cooperative routing. I think their fee structures
are in line with an operation with that many T-1's coming in the door
and being internally routed, plus the managerial overhead (I have no
problem with Bill Washburn making $50k or more, I don't doubt he
earns it...).
I have argued and will continue to argue that the CIX should adjust
itself to cover some lower-end providers as well. But from what I
have seen it is doing a good and appropriate job in the segment of
the market it's addressing. It _isn't_ getting into the backbone
game. All it's doing is providing a few centralized points where
(ideally) everyone can connect to to make routing in the world
as flat and possible. So far, it's also been as politics free
as possible: despite the discussions about how CIX members can
not route third-party traffic, they appear to be doing so anyway.
If the CIX can adjust so there don't have to be any third-party
providers, then the politics will go away and we have a very
positive situation.
By the way, I would really like Anonymous to explain why they
feel they have to hide. It's not like people don't know who
the non-CIX providers are. Are you really afraid that one
of the big providers will be petty enough to cut you off
specifically as opposed to as a class if they decide they
don't like transiting that traffic?
-george william herbert
gwh@crl.com speaking only for myself
