[1860] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: CIX questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Perry)
Fri Jan 3 16:06:16 1992
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 15:58:31 EST
From: perry@MCL.Unisys.COM (Dennis Perry)
To: bob@morningstar.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, perry@mcl.unisys.com
>
> From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 6:35:19 CST
>
> 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.
Actually, you don't need to connect with both, just everyone connect
to one - I suspect that is some of what is happening here in the
"competitive" environment - After all, competition does not mean
everyone wins, just one.
dennis
