[1368] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Will ANS connect to CIX? Why is this a difficult question?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Adams)
Wed Sep 18 15:29:14 1991
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 15:25:32 -0400
From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
To: com-priv@psi.com
> Even assuming that someone on the ANSnet side is ftping something huge
> (X11R6?) from a CIX member's network, that's still an ANSnet customer
> loading down the link (which, presumably, means that ANS should make
> sure that there are archives available on their side as well... like,
> say, SIMTEL-20. ;-).
>
> Even the "worst case" of CIX customers ftping files from ANSnet sites
> means that the ANSnet site made those files available, presumably as
> part of whatever "mission" they had (MIT and the X Consortium, say), and
> the traffic is therefore still supported by an ANS customer.
>
> I don't see where fears of "through traffic" could come from, given the
> routing architecture, and any "local traffic" would, by definition, be
> mutual: both ANS and the CIX would be *exchanging* it on behalf of
> *their customers*.
HURRAY! Someone else can see through the fog.
ANS continues to pretend that people can use their network without
being their customers - nonsense. Then they say that their non-customers
should pay for using the network that their customers paid for - i.e.
pay twice for the infrastructure.
This is why the ANS settlement structure is such a sham. Presumably, ANS is
getting paid what they consider to be a fair price by their customers. Then
they want the other end of the connection to pay for what has already been
paid for. It's a great deal if you can get it.
Thats not cost settlement, thats overcharging. Just because they
are charging "commercial" sites, doesnt make it unreasonable. Just
because some commercial sites are willing to pay it doesnt make it reasonable.
The proposed ANS settlement scheme is nothing more than a tax on commercial
sites levied by ANS.
Usually, we only see "soak the rich" tax schemes coming out of congress...
The emperor has no clothes!
