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From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 1:08:54 CST Cc: com-priv@psi.com In-Reply-To: <911212002204.926e@SDG.DRA.COM>; from "Sean Donelan" at Dec 12, 91 12:22 am > > If you go with PSI or Alternet you have to pay full freight. But if > you go with ANS, NSF picks up a healthy chunk of the costs. At the last > MIDNET meeting I attended the fact that NSF had already paid to bring the > ANS connection to MIDNET made choosing ANS more attractive. The alternative > meant paying (at a minimum) for a cross-country circuit to a ?IXs. Signing > an agreement with ANS was essentially "free" for MIDNET. > > So you are correct that there are no "natural monopolies," but an academic > site is faced with this choice: > > ANS/NSF connection: $0 > Any other carrier: $$$$ > > What do you think the market survivability of the "other carriers" is? > -- > Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO > Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100 IMHO, the Government shouldn't fund either of these cases, or it should fund BOTH of them. There are two separate issues: 1) Why award the money. 2) How to assure that the money is spent reasonably for the purpose that it is supposed to be used for. I won't debate the first issue; I have mixed feelings on it. Point #2 is defined by the >requirements< of the network to be connected through or to, not the provider's name. It is thus proper to specify technical details (ie: speed of connection, up-time guarantees and compensation for breaches, round-trip "ping" time perhaps, and connectivity to other sites or networks. It is proper to specify the kinds of packets you expect to be routed and how (ie: IP protocols, IPX, SNA, etc) as well as the cost basis (ie: bandwidth of connection, actual packet usage, etc). Why hasn't this path been followed? -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900] Anon. arch. (nuucp) 00:00-06:00 C[SD]T Request file: /u/public/sources/DIRECTORY/README for instructions
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