[1230] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: technical details
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Collyer)
Tue Aug 27 18:30:22 1991
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 18:29:44 -0400
From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
To: ittai@shemesh.ans.NET
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
> o The flat-fee settlements (previously described as a no
> settlements policy) only works among equals.
>
> The CIX founders are more-or-less equals at least in terms
> of network bandwidth. Some have wider-scale deployment than
> others, but the differences among them do not include the
> infrastructure bandwidth. ANS is different in this regard.
> We have a coast-to-coast T3 backbone.
I think the T3 backbone is a red herring. Once a network reaches a
certain speed, adding more speed doesn't make it any more useful.
As an end user, trying to get non-academic, non-commercial bits from
point A on Alternet to point B on Onet, being unable to use the T3 (or
NSF T1) backbone is just a nuisance and means I have to find an Officially
Blessed host to use as a relay so I don't contaminate the Precious Bodily
Fluids of the NSF/ANS backbones. I'll be really glad when I don't need to
use the NSF or ANS backbones to get from A to B.
As far as I'm concerned, ANS *is* an equal of Alternet, roughly.
(Actually, Alternet works better because it doesn't have a flakey T3
backbone.)
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Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff
