[11516] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What's an ISP again...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Tue Apr 5 04:55:27 1994
To: ittai@ans.net (Ittai Hershman)
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 08:26:21 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: poole@magnolia.eunet.ch, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.2.765516259.ittai@shemesh.ans.net> from "Ittai Hershman" at Apr 4, 94 11:24:19 pm
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
>
> EUnet has a number of national organisations in ex-eastern block
> and developing countries (mainly North Africa). Among other
> countries, we were the first to supply commercial Internet (not
> US-Government funded) access in the CIS countries, Czech Republic
> and Tunisisa.
>
> Simon,
>
> Could you help me understand how EUnet is structured and governed? I
> have been wondering how EUnet qualified all the many national EUnet
> organizations under a single $10,000 membership in the CIX Association?
You should check the minutes of one of the last members assembly meetings,
there this was discussed and decided. But at least a couple of the arguments
are/were (as far as I know):
- EUnet is substantially older than the CIX (so there is no question
of it being a device to circumvent CIX membership requirements).
- seperate incorporation of national organisations in the countries
we cover was and is a legal necessity.
- that we do not have a normal corporate structure is a quirk of
history and not design.
But as I've pointed out before, I don't think you really would want to force
EUnet to acquire 30 odd CIX votes (and use them). There is no doubt that
we would and could negotiate seperate agreements with all interesting CIX
member networks. Membership of EUnet in CIX has always been more in support
of the ideas behind the CIX, than business necessity.
Simon
