[1633] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Commercial traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Dec 7 21:06:17 1991
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1991 20:04:54 CST
From: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@psi.com
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>> That's odd, I would have thought that ANS and Merit would have
>> been the first commercial customers to interconnect to the ANS
>> network.
>
>That's like saying that ATT is the first customer of the ATT network.
The CO+RE proposal has several things that are different. The first
being that if you're not an ATT customer, you and ATT can still communicate.
According to the press release Merit, and ANS will implement routing
controls so CO+RE customers will not be able to communicate with anyone who
hasn't executed an agreement with ANS/Merit. This is going to be fun for
planning on where the root servers go.
Secondly, ATT doesn't promise to contribute money based on the usage of
the network to worthy causes, although they do contribute money to worthy
causes. One the big things about the CO+RE program was the notion of COMBITS
funding a national infrastructure pool to be doled out to worthy causes. How
much money is in that pool now anyway?
Do ANS and Merit plan to participate in the CO+RE program?
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
