[2290] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Complete Roster of "commercial internet" providers?y
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcurran@NNSC.NSF.NET)
Wed Feb 5 10:57:56 1992
To: Jim Rutt <walney!jpr@uu.psi.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 05 Feb 92 09:51:32 -0500.
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 10:50:19 -0500
From: jcurran@NNSC.NSF.NET
--------
From: Jim Rutt <walney!jpr@uu.psi.com>
Subject: Re: Complete Roster of "commercial internet" providers?y
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 9:51:32 EST
I'm interested in anybody offering "unrestricted traffic" access
on essentially a common carrier basis. Interested in regionals,
international, too.
Jim Rutt
Reader's Access Corp.
Jim,
You're asking for something that's quite reasonable, but very hard to
provide today. There are a number of network service providers which
provide basically "unrestricted traffic" within their networks, but there
is no general assurance that you can exchange unrestricted traffic between
any two.
There are at least three initiatives underway to interconnect the various
commercial islands but until that occurs you have to check with each network
to determine who they can exchange unrestricted traffic with.
I've sent a list of network contacts to you under a separate mail message.
Hope this helps,
John Curran
NSF Network Service Center
