[1838] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Commercial Use Scenario Part 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jordan Becker)
Thu Jan 2 18:38:32 1992
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 92 18:29:34 EST
From: Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net>
To: cook@tmn.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> <<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 01-JAN-92 12:29
> cook@tmn
>
> 1. Presumably 100% of what these 10 com clients send onto the backbone
> must now be judged as commercial. Why? Because you don't and presumably
> will not in the future actually inspect packets and policy based routing
> from what I can gather has not yet arrived (ie is not yet usable).
A clarification to Gordon's analysis of the ANS plan is required here. Assume
that the network numbers used by the 10 com (or edu or other) service
subscribers are declared to ANS under a gateway agreement as commercial by the
ANSNET subscriber network that hosts these networks. ANS will measure the
traffic exchanged between the ANSNET subscriber network and all other ANSNET
reachable networks. The percentage of the total traffic exchange that
involves all of the 10 com service subscribers will be assessed as commercial
to the ANSNET subscriber network that hosts them. It will NOT be assessed as
commercial to any other ANSNET subscriber network. In other words, midlevels
or other ANSNET subscriber networks that do not declare their network numbers
as commercial (e.g. purely R&E midlevel networks) will not be assessed for
commercial traffic exchanges regardless of the classifications declared by
other ANSNET subscriber networks.
No assumptions are made by ANS about the traffic exchanges that do not
involve the ANSNET, or other bilateral agreements that may be established
between ANS and service provider networks that ANS interconnects with.
> 2. If they send truly enterprise networking commercial data across the
> backbone, then they will be sending it to other offices of the same
> corporation which will be connected by other mid-levels.
Not necessarily. They might exchange traffic across the ANSNET with other
self-declared commercial networks that they have no organizational affiliation
with.
> In such a case we have a situation where 5 or 6 or 7
> OTHER mid-levels must if they are to service these companies must also
> sign either the gateway agreement or the cooperative agreement with ANS.
> True? Or false?
True if the other ANS direct attached midlevels declare these networks as
commercial. Again, no midlevel is assessed for commercial traffic exchanges
based on the classification of networks outside of its own midlevel. This way
the midlevel can control the cost impact associated with declaring these
networks as commercial.
> The ANS agreements it seems to me are based on the expectation that there
> are LOTS of companies looking to use the NSFnet/Ansnet for enterprise
> networking.
Not completely. They are based on the broader expectation that the service
providers that ANS interconnects with will want their R&E and commercial
subscribers to have access to other R&E and commercial subscribers reachable
via ANSNET without commercial use restrictions, changes to their network
infrastructure, or changes to their organizational status.
Jordan
