[2854] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell Kapor)
Mon Jun 15 22:33:59 1992
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 22:34:13 -0400
To: jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu, com-priv@psi.com
From: mkapor@eff.org (Mitchell Kapor)
A university or a university-affiliate which offers IP services across
multiple geographical areas would need to offer these services to the
general public on the same terms on which it offers them internally to
university customers in order to meet the requirement for CIX memberships.
(I guess this has the same meaning as "providing third party services to
unaffiliated organizations". which has been used here.)
The central idea of the CIX is to promote public data internetworking. In
the case where the university service was not offered to the public, its
customers could still have restriction-free access to other CIX members if
the regional network to which the university is attached is a CIX member,
but it would not be possible ot join the CIX directly and by-pass the
regional.
I hope this clarifies the matter.
Mitch Kapor
Chair, CIX
(posted from Kobe, Japan at the INET '92 conference)
