[1241] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS mid-level agreements [was "Network World "The Vision of..."]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Wed Aug 28 09:25:52 1991
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 09:21:49 -0400
To: Ittai Hershman <ittai@shemesh.ans.net>
From: jbvb@ftp.com (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Reply-To: jbvb@ftp.com
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, lear@turbo.bio.net
Your 'Gateway Agreement' is somewhat unclear about the basis for its
pricing policy: It can see that you factor in the cost of providing a
given amount of bandwidth to and from a connected transit network. I can
also see that you attempt to determine what fraction of this will be CO and
what RE. I can't tell whether a transit network with 250 CO and 250 RE
sites connected at 10Mb would pay more for a T1 line to ANS than another
with 25 CO and 25 RE sites connected at 56Kb that also wanted a T1. If more,
could you explain why?
Another issue is regionals with ANS connections that have backdoors. If
ANS's price reflects the both the bandwith and the number of leaf nets,
and regional A (ANS connected) has a backdoor to regional B (also ANS
connected), do you charge A for A+B leaves, and B for B+A? Do the relative
speeds of the ANS connections vs. the backdoor connection matter as well?
James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880
FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901
