[2302] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Complete Roster of "commercial internet" providers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike.Patterson@mtsg.ubc.ca)
Wed Feb 5 18:33:15 1992
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:13:44 PST
From: Mike.Patterson@mtsg.ubc.ca
To: com-priv@psi.com
> I'm interested in anybody offering "unrestricted traffic" access
> on essentially a common carrier basis. Interested in regionals, international,
> too.
BCnet is the regional or mid-level for the province of British
Columbia in Canada which connects the province's universities, several
of its colleges, a high school, and about 30 other organizations which
are involved in education or research of one sort or another. It is
connected to the rest of Canada and to the NSFNET using CA*net, the
Canadian backbone network. (It has been financially self-sufficient
for the past two years after start-up funding was exhausted.)
Our management board met last Friday and decided to start accepting
unrestricted traffic -- we had until then accepted only research and
education traffic using an acceptable use policy much like the
NSFNET's.
Several decisions related to traffic which does not meet our R&E AUP
have yet to be made, though, such as whether to charge a different
fee. The AUP of CA*net is such that we can already exchange non-R&E
traffic with any other regionals which wish to accept it, but we
have no link to the rest of the world over which we can exchange
this traffic. We are discussing such access with US commercial IP
networks.
-- Mike Patterson, General Manager, BCnet
BCnet Headquarters | Internet BCnet@ubc.ca
419-6356 Agricultural Road | BITNET USERMPAT@UBCMTSG
Vancouver, British Columbia | UUCP ubc-cs!ubc.ca!BCnet
Canada V6T 1Z2 | Phone (604) 822-3932 Fax (604) 822-5116
