[1673] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The WEIS/AUPPERLE letter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alison@oar.net)
Tue Dec 10 10:25:35 1991
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 10:23:13 -0500
From: alison@oar.net
To: geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us, steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov
Cc: co+re@ans.net, com-priv@psi.com, farber@cis.upenn.edu, members@farnet.org,
Personally, I prefer the FARNET model where the regional would request
filtering. However, Steve's point is well taken that ANS is probably
in a better position to do the actual filtering, as specified by the
network on the other side of the gateway, than the network itself may
be. In any case, offering filtering allows the network using the
gateway the option of doing themselves or having ANS do it.
On first reading of the ANS/Merit announcement, I thought it was designed
to answer some of the concerns of the agency networks rather than the
"regional" networks (like OARnet). I still wonder if that was the
primary thrust.
This announcement would have gone down better if it had come from NSF
rather than ANS/Merit, and it was rather unfair of Steve to ask ANS
to make this announcement, given the tensions in the NSFNET community
surrounding the whole commercialization/privatization question.
