[119] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Is SUNFLASH misuse of the network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent England)
Mon Nov 12 10:14:17 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 09:59:17 est
From: kwe@buitb.bu.edu (Kent England)
To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com, sob@tmc.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, schoff@psi.com
> From: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com
> Still, I can't imagine the routing issues involved in seeing that a
> mailing list like SUNFLASH only traverses the "commercial" backbone.
>
Steve, you hit it. All this talk about an alternate
"commercial" backbone is irrelevant, given that we have no policy
mechanism to allow "end-users" (like mailing list exploders) to choose
the appropriate path. Perhaps someone can come up with some scheme
whereby the mid-levels could control e-mail paths by using forwarding
agents, or somesuch thing, but it won't scale well.
An alternate commercial backbone, as simplistically presented
without addressing of cost sharing and routing mechanisms, is no
solution to any problem.
--Kent
