[455] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
CIX Implications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net)
Tue Mar 26 23:16:02 1991
From: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Tue Mar 26 23:13:11 1991
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 26-MAR-91 23:13
cook@tmn
The CIX announcement is interesting. Am surprised there has been little
(no?) comment. Would someone say what a comapny like Harris which
presumably is not now connected to any of the three partners in CIX would
have to do to send its packets from say Suranet to a PSInet gateway where
they could wind up presumably at plants in New York and california without
using the NSFnet backbone.
What i am getting at is whether or not some kind of traverse fee is
feasible for those companies who are on other parts of the net as .coms or
whether a full fledged CIX router on my company presence is necessary to
enjoy the CIX freedom from commercial use restriction? Or is ther a
middle course? Could I sign up as a monthly dial in customer.
I'd think this would offer an interesting alternative to ANS plans to put
commercial customers on *ITS* backbone.
I wish *SOMEONE* from ANS would honor this list with their thoughts on
this subject!
