[1861] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
CIX questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Haverty)
Fri Jan 3 16:26:19 1992
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 13:21:55 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
To: perry@MCL.Unisys.COM
Cc: bob@morningstar.com, com-priv@psi.com, perry@mcl.unisys.com
In-Reply-To: Dennis Perry's message of Fri, 3 Jan 92 15:58:31 EST <9201032058.AA29476@kauai.MCL.Unisys.COM>
"...
There are thus two disjoint sets of commercial connectivity: ANS and the CIX.
..."
InfoLan is offering a commercial Lan-interconnect service which supports IP
and/or DECNet. It's especially interesting (to us at least) because it covers
quite a few countries around the world, not just the US.
This would seem to be a third (at least) "set of commercial connectivity". Can
anyone comment on ANS/CIX/InfoLan interconnection?
I must admit to not following the play-by-play in great detail recently, but I
seem to remember that InfoLan is part of Infonet, which is owned by a consortium
of carriers including MCI, which has an association with IBM and Merit for
NSFNET, which has a (rather controversial it seems) connection to ANS, CIX, et
al. So I'm kind of surprised not to have noticed any discussion of InfoLan yet.
Jack
