[1850] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: CIX questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Manning)
Fri Jan 3 09:02:38 1992
From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
To: bob@morningstar.com
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 8:01:13 CST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9201031327.AA06837@roughy.morningstar.com>; from "Bob Sutterfield" at Jan 3, 92 8:27 am
Bob Sutterfield
>
> If ... my regional joins a CIX, then why would I want my regional
> to sign an ANS gateway agreement?
>
> Because (at last report) ANS hadn't joined the CIX, and the CIX
> members hadn't signed an ANS agreement. There are thus two disjoint
> sets of commercial connectivity: ANS and the CIX. If you want to get
> legal packets to sites on each, you need to connect with both.
>
Ah, here is the "kicker". I will use the NSFnet (read T1) for R&E
traffic and use ANSnet (read T3) for that purpose, when they move me, BUT
I will also sign an agreement with a CIX, for those sites that want commercial.
Thus I force my regional to make the determination as to which route to send
my traffic on, either the CIX backbone (commercial) or the NSF/ANS backbone
(research and education).
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Regards,
Bill Manning
713-285-5415
R.U. (o-kome)
