[360] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
My understanding of ANS, etc (corrections welcome)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Dern)
Thu Mar 14 10:01:05 1991
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 09:48:56 -0500
From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Cc: ddern@world.std.com
My understanding of ANS' current charter/intention, based on
assorted reading, discussions, and whatnot, is that their
current charter is _solely_ wholesale connect, e.g., from
regional/midlevels to their backbone, but _NO_ retail/site
direct connection. I have no way to assess whether this is
indeed the case, but this is what I've been told. (Whether
supercomputer centers can be considered wholesale connections
is an interesting question within that.)
Also -- again, my understanding -- is that ANS has been set up
explicitly as a non-profit, carrying ONLY R&D&E traffic. But
that the corporate partners _do_ retain the option of also setting
up a for-profit, corporate, carry-anything backbone (presumably
using their giganickel.
I'd be curious to know more about what ANS is up to, who's there
besides the current execs -- their absence within this list,
participation wise, seems odd.
Daniel Dern
ddern@world.std.com
