[1240] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: impact of settlements on provision of free services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Wed Aug 28 08:57:38 1991
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 8:49:15 EDT
From: Ittai Hershman <ittai@shemesh.ans.net>
To: emv@msen.com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 28 Aug 91 03:25:06 -0400
Ed,
Settlements occur inter-carrier, and not between a carrier and his/her
customer. ANS is required to recover full average cost for any
commercial traffic it sends across the backbone in order to fund the
national infrastructure pool.
-Ittai
