[1766] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Connectivity Agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan H. Weis)
Tue Dec 17 12:46:24 1991
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 12:33:29 EST
From: Allan H. Weis <weis@ans.net>
To: jrugo@nic.near.net
Cc: members@farnet.org, co+re@ans.net, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 13 Dec 91 08:31:51 -0500
I apologize if we haven't yet made the purpose of the Connectivity
Agreement clear. Our connectivity agreement is a result of a request
by the NSF, and in describing the reason for the request, Steve Wolff
stated, "Some of the traffic carried by ANS originates from network
numbers whose owners have declared all their traffic to be
'commercial'. Since the regional network had no part in causing the
offending traffic to land on its doorstep, NSF felt that the regional
network should not be obliged to spend its own resources to keep it
out. Since ANS carried the traffic to the gateway, NSF felt it was
ANS' responsibility to keep it from leaking into places it was not
wanted. Accordingly, NSF asked ANS to block traffic appropriately,
and asked Merit to cooperate in the necessary routing arrangements."
A regional network is not required to sign the ANS Connectivity
Agreement to receive traffic from ANS CO+RE customers who provide
information services to the regional's clients. A letter authorizing
ANS to pass CO+RE traffic into the regional network is sufficient.
Signing the connectivity agreement allows the regional to participate
in the Infrastructure Pool. By accepting the CO+RE traffic, the
regional can leverage its present investment in infrastructure and
enhance service to its customers by providing them access to
commercial information resources. If you would like to discuss the
possibility of the exchange of commercial traffic between NEARnet and
ANS CO+RE, please give me a call.
Al Weis
