[1924] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Connectivity Agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Wed Jan 8 16:52:15 1992
To: ahoover@hoovermac.ans.net (Al Hoover)
To: jrugo@nic.near.net, cook@tmn.com, becker@ans.net
Cc: co+re@ans.net, com-priv@psi.com, members@farnet.org
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 92 16:29:19 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
In one conversation:
John Rugo <jrugo@nic.near.net> asks:
>> OK, so NEARnet would agree to accept commercial traffic from ANS, does
>> ANS agree to accept commercial traffic from NEARnet under the same
>> terms and conditions? As I read it, a regional agrees to use its
>> infrastructure as a distribution mechanism for ANS and gets nothing in
>> return.
Al Hoover <ahoover@hoovermac.ans.net> answers:
>> The short answer to your question is no, ANS will not accept
>> commercial (CO) traffic generated by an attached network under the
>> Connectivity Agreement. There is a Gateway agreement that can be
>> signed whereby ANS and the attached network exchange CO traffic.
In a separate conversation:
Gordon Cook <cook@tmn.com> asks:
>> On Dec 26 I said: Again what is unanswered in the Communications Week
>> Dec 23rd article is when the mid-level gets to sign the gateway or
>> cooperative agreement. The claim is made that all they are asked to
>> sign is a connectivity agreement which apparently places them under no
>> obligation except to receive commercial traffic from ANS' customers.
Jordan Becker <becker@ans.net> answers:
>> Correction: there is no obligation other than to "exchange" traffic
>> bi-directionally with ANSNET reachable networks that have declared
>> themselves as commercial.
My interpretation of the above is that according to Al Hoover, a site
connected to Nearnet cannot send bits to a site connected to ANSnet,
but the ANSnet site can send bits to a site connected to Nearnet.
According to Jordan Becker, these two sites can exchange traffic.
Am I misreading something, or has ANS contradicted itself here? Who's
right? Who's wrong? (It may be me.) If ANS's own employees don't
understand the policy, how are we supposed to?
Marc
