[2606] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
world.std.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu)
Sun Mar 22 10:53:21 1992
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 92 10:44:26 EST
From: Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu
To: bzs@world.std.com
Cc: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, com-priv@psi.com
To deal with cases like this:
One *.cornell.edu system (I forget which) someone asked
us about the other day seemed to be setup to prefer
going via their NSS or something, wouldn't route towards
us but was reachable from fully connected sites. I am
99% sure the same site was accessible a few days before
via CIX.
I think what we need to do is to make good faith efforts to
send the traffic across networks so that the traffic meets the
verious conditions of use statements. If something goes wrong
or if the path a particular packet takes isn't clear to the
end-user (as it shouldn't be) then, we need to try to fix
things up when we become aware of the problems. I don't think
that we need absolute perfection here. Perfection isn't
possible and everyone knows it. As far as I can tell the people
who set the rules are all very reasoanble and are trying to
balance conflicting demands. They understand that
misundersandings will sometimes take place and that the
technology we are using doesn't always allow us to do things
exactly right. I think everyone is willing to cope with that.
Please don't misunderstand me. I want to see the current
situation improved and would be very happy if the rules can be
changed to make it easier to deal with these situations. I am
hopeful that ANS and the CIX folks will come to some reasonable
terms that work for all of us. They could use help from NSF as
they do this of course. At the same time I think there are ways
to get work done today as long as we don't all try to be
lawyers when reading and implementing these policies.
-Jeff Ogden
MichNet
