[11476] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Apr 4 02:50:19 1994
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 21:45:37 -0400
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@sprint.net>
To: bmanning@is.rice.edu, gwh@crl.com
Cc: bilse@eu.net, bzs@world.std.com, com-priv@psi.com, jlw@cs.columbia.edu
>You can go through a regional or Sprintlink and resell,
>but that puts you in the routing-not-guaranteed class
>if I'm reading things right. Which is what people
>are worried about.
Well, it is not true, at least with SprintLink which is
connected thru ICM to FIX-W and FIX-E, and has direct
connectivity to CIX and MAE-East and some 23 countries.
Not using CIX will mean nothing worse than suboptimal
routing...
I know only one NSP for whom CIX connectivity is
critical. As it stands CIX is a very useful non-AUP
interconnection point on West coast but definitely
is not the key point of Internet.
--vadim
