[11501] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The whole CIX concept is flawed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Apr 4 19:28:16 1994
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 94 09:08 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: gwh@crl.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404030749.AA17676@crl.crl.com> (message from George Herbert on Sat, 02 Apr 1994 23:49:46 -0800)
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 23:49:46 -0800
From: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>
400 users is on the large side for the people who make a difference.
400 shell users makes it onto the top 15 or 20 lists for shell providers.
Yup, you're quite right.
The situation is wholy different if, say, all ten people who want SLIP
in say, pick a random city, umm... Elko, Nevada decide they want to get
a line together, and a K a year each for CIX costs begins to hurt...
But for only 10 users, you incorporate as a not-for-profit coop, with
each of the ten users as stockholders. Bing, you're not reselling IP,
you're just using it internally to your members, just like
universities and corporations do.
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/crynwr/crynwr.wav
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