[1252] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: technical details
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot)
Wed Aug 28 20:46:01 1991
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 17:45:33 -0700
From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Gak!!!
>As for routing - that is a red herring.
The question I specifically asked was that particular ``red herring''.
To date only two people have addressed that question, and they've both
said, ``Oh yeah, it's a problem.'' Even if we have full routing
sloshing all over our regional, we still can't guarantee that NSFNET is
not seeing comercial traffic. This leads me to two conclusions:
1] In order for BARRNET to exchange routes with CIX (or any other
commercial carrier) and still take advantage of the NSFNET, we need to
have an arrangement with ANS, so that failures and fallovers don't
taint the government wire.
2] If ANS *didn't* exist, we could not make a deal with anyone, because
failures and fallovers would always taint the government wire!!
3] The above situation will exist so long as the national backbone has
restrictions.
I ask again: Is there a routing solution for a regional network that
will allow me to join CIX without sending commercial packets through
the NSS/ENSS?
--
Eliot Lear
[lear@turbo.bio.net]
