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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 92 15:17:28 PST From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd) To: cook@tmn.com Cc: com-priv@psi.com In-Reply-To: Gordon Cook's message of 10 Jan 92 01:06:06 EST (Fri) <9201100106.AA23633@tmn.com> Reply-To: brian@lloyd.com There is one issue that arises out of this whole thing that prevents the world from walking away from ANS: they have a T3 backbone. The CIX shares information over a pipe that is 1.544 Mbps wide. For better or worse the folk at ANS saw a good thing and grabbed it. They got the contract from the NSF and the rest is history. I am sure that my recent postings have made me appear to be anti-ANS but I want to state very clearly that I am not. On the other hand, I do ask myself if ANS is going to do its best to put competitive organizations our of business. (Providing internetworking service has the potential to be a very competitive business.) Perhaps the image of the lion and the lamb is a good analogy. Traveling circuses and traveling road shows often displayed a lion and a lamb in the same cage. The lion would usually show little interest in the lamb. On the other hand, the lion has to eat to survive. So long as the lion was well fed, it was unlikely to devour the lamb. But let our lion become hungry, our lamb becomes lamb chops. Does this make the lion evil? Heck no; that is the way that lions are progrmmed to operate. But whether the lion is good or evil bears little on the ultimate fate of the lamb. Now if the lion can only be convinced that eating lamb is bad for its health (cholesterol, you know), perhaps that will change things. 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
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