[2847] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: CIX membership requirement for use of CIX.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com)
Fri Jun 12 20:31:49 1992
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 20:27:13 -0400
From: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com
To: mkapor@eff.org, geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
There are some problems with the following definition which Geoff
Goodfellow proposed:
Entities which TRANSPORT THIRD PARTY TCP/IP TRAFFIC AND
RESELL TCP/IP NETWORKING CONNECTIVITY TO OTHER ENTITIES IN SINGLE OR
MULTIPLE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS MUST JOIN THE CIX TO GET THEIR THIRD
PARTY ENTITIES CONNECTIVITY TO OTHER CIX MEMBER NETWORKS.
Within Hewlett Packard, the corporate wide-area IP network is run by
one organization which sells wide-area network connectivity (including
connectivity to the Internet as a whole) to various other entities
within HP which use the network.
Now, HP isn't a single monolithic corporation; it has a number of
wholly owned subsidiaries (mostly for the divisions located outside
the USA). These subsidiaries *behave* (for the most part like one big
corporation (or at least they're supposed to :-) ), but they actually
are legally separate organizational entities.
Of course, all these entities use (for the most part) subnets of
15.*.*.*, so it's not really feasible for a network provider connected
to the CIX to distinguish "HP Japan" traffic from "Greater HP"
traffic.
- Bill Sommerfeld
(Speaking for myself, not for HP)
