[2613] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
world.std.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Mar 23 00:13:55 1992
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 00:12:17 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: swb@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu
Cc: Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu, SEAN@sdg.dra.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Scott Brim's message of Sun, 22 Mar 92 21:43:15 -0500 <9203230243.AA16849@mitchell.cit.cornell.edu>
>From: Scott Brim <swb@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu>
>What was the problem referred to above?
Don't take it too seriously, it was just an example I was using.
One day someone asked us why some (major ftp) host at Cornell wasn't
reachable from world.std.com. I did a traceroute and it seemed to be
sending its packets out thru NSFnet so we couldn't get to it under
current circumstances.
Perhaps it was just a temprorary problem, but it can be vexing when
one is only partially routeable, which is the point.
Worse, if we were completely connected and that person knew that
yesterday (e.g.) they were getting there via CIX so AUP didn't apply,
but today some routing problem caused their packets to automagically
route through NSFnet to the same host then suddenly AUP applies.
That was the real point. It's very hard for an end-user to know how
his or her packets are going to a particular host, even hour to hour.
-Barry Shein
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