[11463] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Manning)
Sun Apr 3 13:28:56 1994
From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
To: jlw@cs.columbia.edu (James Waldrop)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 09:06:21 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: bzs@world.std.com, bilse@eu.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404022309.SAA24587@shekel.cs.columbia.edu> from "James Waldrop" at Apr 2, 94 06:09:05 pm
James Waldrop
>
> Consider a small startup, selling shell accounts to people (or just
> some sort of internet connectivity). They'd like to offer SLIP, but
> it means laying out $10K on top of everything else...
>
This is only true if they join the CIX. This is -NOT- required to provide
SLIP services. Get a reseller agreement from your local regional.
(most of them have them now) You can join the CIX, pay your $10k and
then get the line, or you can join your regional as areseller.
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Regards,
Bill Manning
