[11416] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The simple equation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Fri Apr 1 04:55:46 1994
To: avg@sprint.net (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 10:03:26 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: ckd@kei.com, com-priv@lists.psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404010127.UAA07355@titan.sprintlink.net> from "Vadim Antonov" at Mar 31, 94 08:27:21 pm
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
>
> Just a reminder -- there is also AUP-free interconnection
> point in DC metropolitan area; MAE-East. It's cheaper and
> has no "no reselling" policy. It's also quite overloaded.
> Several MAE-East participants are trying to figure out how
> to upgrade it now...
>
> Thus, any assumption that CIX membership is necessary fot
> non-AUP connectivity is just plain false. There is a network
> which relies on CIX heavily, though.
>
Vadim, you forget to mention that there are no agreements on traffic
exchange associated with a MAE-East connection except bilateral ones.
This makes the MAE-East interconnect a very different beast than the
CIX industry association where the physical interconnect is in the
end just a side effect of the traffic exchange arrangements.
Simon
