[490] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
CIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent England)
Fri Mar 29 14:59:06 1991
From: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 14:57:42 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com
I may have given the impression that I somehow did not
like the idea of a CIX. I frankly thought it wouldn't happen
and am delighted to see that Rick and Marty can make this happen
in a very slick and clean manner.
It is only those who need to discriminate between subsidized
and unsubsidized traffic who still have a problem. Alternet and
PSInet customers don't have to worry about which backbone they
belong to, given the CIX agreement as I understand it. It seems
to me if somehow asymmetric routing occurs between an Alternet
client and a PSInet client, that it does not matter, since both
backbones have similar usage policies.
One big happy family, right? But that can't happen with
the NSFnet backbone until and unless its usage policy is more in
line with Alternet and PSInet.
--Kent
