[2859] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Fajman)
Tue Jun 16 20:04:35 1992
To: mkapor@eff.org
Cc: jqj@oregon.uoregon.edu, com-priv@psi.com
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 20:01:56 EDT
> 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)
This piques my curiosity. What about the case of a federal
agency that provides connections to other agencies that it
has some sort of special relationship with?
Roger Fajman Telephone: +1 301 402 1246
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