[127] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
A Dumb Question?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hayes)
Mon Nov 12 11:55:46 1990
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 10:34 PST
From: merlin@pony.cis.smu.edu (David Hayes)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Pardon me for being ignorant here, but a question occurs to me.
The NSF backbone can't handle commercial traffic. It seems that
the commercial IP providers aren't interested in being just the
national transport mechanism for the NSF regionals -- they (PSI,
at least) want to connect directly to the end user.
Why don't the regionals just build their own interconnections,
and solve the whole problem? People who want bare-bones "transport
my packets" service can get it from the regionals. Those who want
a higher degree of support, and are willing to pay the higher
costs, can turn to PSI.
David Hayes, Manager of Computer Operations
SMU School of Engineering & Applied Science
