[2572] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: access to world.std.com from the Univ of Michigan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Mon Mar 16 23:03:27 1992
From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 23:00:56 EST
Cc: alison@oar.net, drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9203162120.AA24730@world.std.com>; from "Barry Shein" at Mar 16, 92 4:20 pm
> From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
> Subject: access to world.std.com from the Univ of Michigan
> To: alison@oar.net
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 16:20:35 -0500
>
> >From: alison@oar.net
> >I should run a T1 line all the way to the West Coast in order to
> >get interconnected to the CIX?
>
> I would be surprised if CIX stipulated that the only way for OARnet to
> get connected is by running a wire to the West Coast, but perhaps
> that's true, or a preliminary answer. Did this come out of discussion
> with them? Or just implication? It was specific enough that I believe
> you if you say discussion. Perhaps that needs to be said.
If you don't want to run your own line all the way to the CIX, then you
can connect to another member of the CIX and make arrangements with
them to transit your traffic to the CIX. We have talked about this
with several network providers.
--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
