[461] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How will CIX affect rates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Wed Mar 27 17:31:46 1991
To: koreth@ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 27 Mar 91 14:13:07 -0800.
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 14:31:01 PST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
>I do think that this agreement is probably the most important development
>in wide-area networking in quite some time, and I'm really happy to see it.
I think it may actually be the second most important development in wide-area
networking in quite some time. The first, i think, important development was
PSI's announcement of FLAT RATE pricing for a Value-Added Network (VAN)
services. Especially TCP/IP network services.
I think CompuServe's CPN X.25 network may have actually had flat rate
pricing before PSI's announcement, but only as an option. With PSI (and
UUNET) it is the only option.
I don't know if Telenet, Tymnet, ACCUNET, et al are getting worried yet,
but having the various commercial providers of TCP/IP VAN services
interconnecting ala CIX is very noteworthy. It is something the X.25 guys
should have done long long ago.
Geoff Goodfellow
Anterior Technology
