[1330] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is the Definition of Infrastructure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Mon Sep 16 10:09:35 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 10:08:45 EDT
From: Ittai Hershman <ittai@shemesh.ans.net>
To: jbvb@ftp.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 16 Sep 91 09:45:57 -0400
This answers the question I asked earlier; ANS charges 'regional' nets
based on their size, not just on the bandwidth they want into ANS's
backbone.
Size is irrelevant with regard to educational connections. The base
price includes all educational institutions, including K-12.
This indicates a couple of internal ANS policies to me:
First, ANS wants to compete with the regionals to provide end-user
connections.
Wrong. Since ANS has both direct attachments and gateway attachments,
we naturally compete with the mid-levels. The paper is the result of
a collaboration among ANS and the mid-levels to create an environment
in which both mid-levels and ANS could co-exist and thrive.
Second, ANS wants to avoid regional-regional interconnects
that bypass ANS.
Wrong. The COMBit mechanism allows us not to care about "backdoor"
connections between mid-levels. We only care about, and recover costs
for, traffic which crosses the ANS backbone
-Ittai
