[1530] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Alternate Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Sutterfield)
Wed Oct 23 11:55:26 1991
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 11:54:32 -0400
From: Bob Sutterfield <bob@MorningStar.Com>
To: vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU
Cc: sommerfeld@apollo.com, yakov@watson.ibm.com, steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov,
In-Reply-To: Vince Fuller's message of Mon, 21 Oct 91 19:20:18 PDT <CMM.0.90.2.688098018.vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 19:20:18 PDT
From: Vince Fuller <vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU>
...it is the content, not the source/destination, which determines
whether a given packet is commercial or not.
This is a "traditional" view. Another view, if I correctly understood
ANS' comments at the Internet Com/Priv BOF (is anyone confident that
they understood what they were saying?), is that source/destination is
sufficient to distinguish commerciality. That is, an organization
declares itself to be commercial or non-comm when they string the wire
to connect them to the rest of the world, and their packets are
handled accordingly forever after.
This is likely a gross oversimplification, but it seems to be the
consensus interpretation of the listeners I queried later. At least
it would make implementation easier than managing new ToS bits :-)
