[1918] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Understanding Combits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Poulsen)
Wed Jan 8 02:32:08 1992
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 23:28:09 PST
From: lars@CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen)
To: brian@lloyd.com
In-Reply-To: <9201080621.AA01987@ray.lloyd.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In article <9201080621.AA01987@ray.lloyd.com> you write:
>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.
I agree with you. But so far, all indications are that ANS will NOT
join CIX, and then proceed to sign up a few strategic BIG CO customers
that everybody needs to talk to; like IBM, CompuServe and Lexis.
I would be much less suspicious of ANS, if they joined CIX.
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/ Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer
CMC Rockwell lars@CMC.COM