[1360] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Will ANS connect to CIX? Why is this a difficult question?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Wed Sep 18 09:13:23 1991
To: sadowsky@nyu.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 08:20:08 EDT
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
I have, even before the CIX existed as a separate entity, urged ANS to
interconnect with the other commercial providers of Internet access, and Al
Weis - having agreed almost immediately - has never wavered in that
intention. By your use of the loaded term `hedge' I think you misapprehend
ANS' natural and quite proper concern, as the operator of the biggest,
fastest, and best-managed IP pipes around, to be fairly compensated for
others' use of its facilities. Of course what's `fair' is negotiable, but
at a minimum I should think it includes a return to ANS adequate for it to
expand its facilities enough at the margin that the CIX traffic carried does
not degrade ANS' delivered performance to its other customers - especially
the one I care about the most, the NSF community via Merit. -s
