[1245] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: impact of settlements on provision of free services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Pleasant)
Wed Aug 28 11:48:24 1991
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 11:42:14 EDT
From: Mel Pleasant <pleasant@porthos.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: Ittai Hershman <ittai@shemesh.ans.net>
Cc: emv@msen.com, com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 28 Aug 91 8:49:15 EDT
> 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
>
Are you attempting to imply that such costs won't be passed on to your
customers? -- Mel
