[1333] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Questions: ANS Plan for Commercial Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Schoffstall)
Mon Sep 16 11:11:55 1991
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.2.685030472.ittai@shemesh.ans.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 10:06:45 -0400
To: "Ittai Hershman" <ittai@shemesh.ans.net>
Cc: "Peter Roll" <proll@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, com-priv@uu.psi.com,
From: "Martin Schoffstall" <schoff@mail.psi.net>
Reply-To: schoff@psi.com
Ittai,
Your inclusion of "in conjunction with.....FARnet" is misleading.
>From the last meeting in Montana and from the preliminary report posted
last week, FARnet has of yet to embrace anything, and has yet to take a
position to NSF on how they would like to see inter regional
interconnection to happen.
If Laura doesn't mind I'll quote that paragraph here, or she could post
it......
Marty
>
> What burdens will the COMBit technique place on midlevels to
> charge back to their CO+RE users appropriate amounts to cover
> the CO overpayments they make (pg. A-11)? Will the technology
> to do this be available and affordable for midlevels? Will the
> technique tend to force midlevels out of the CO business to avoid
> this problem? Will it induce them to segregate CO and RE users
> on separately-gatewayed subnets? What are these implications for
> midlevels? Have these been thoroughly understood and debated by
> the FARNet membership?
>
>As the paper states at its start and finish, this plan was developed
>in conjuction with representatives from NSF, FARnet, and several
>mid-levels.
>
