[1917] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Understanding Combits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Lloyd)
Wed Jan 8 01:23:11 1992
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 22:21:34 PST
From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: "John Gong"'s message of Tue, 07 Jan 92 14:17:16 PST <9201072217.AA23234@stealth.us.oracle.com>
Reply-To: brian@lloyd.com
The NSF AUP is the thorn in our side. Some time ago I suggested that
everything become commercial and punt the AUP.
However, the traffic on the mailing list has given me an idea (one
that has probably arisen in the minds of others but one I don't
remember seeing). How about if the commercial users only purchase
services from CIX subscribers. CO-CO traffic travels via the CIX and
its participants. Since traffic between CO and RE users is considered
RE by default we have no conflicts when this traffic flows via the CIX
to the NSFnet.
So it appears that things would be GREATLY simplified if ANS would
simply subscribe to the CIX and let the CIX be the single point of
access to the NSFnet for CO users (with the exception of CO users who
subscribe to ANS directly, of course). Seems to me that this would
completely eliminate the conflict.
If there are concerns that there is insufficient bandwidth at the CIX,
I feel fairly certain that this could be rectified. After all, the
technical problems seem to be the simplest to solve.
Naw, it can't be right. It's too simple.
Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN Lloyd & Associates
Principal and Network Architect 3420 Sudbury Road
brian@lloyd.com Cameron Park, CA 95682
voice (916) 676-1147 -or- (415) 725-1392
