[494] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: CIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Fri Mar 29 18:34:24 1991
To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 29 Mar 91 14:57:42 -0500.
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 15:33:01 PST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
> 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.
Not exactly. PSI (and I'd venture to guess AlterNet and ANS?) have third
party traffic prohibitions in their agreements. The NSF use agreement has
no mention of third party traffic prohibitions. This is what allows all
those UUCP, PhoneNet, et al sites to hang off NSFNet regional network site
connections and enjoy the spoils of National Networking Now on the gov't
dole. (This is also why policy based routing is a fairy tale -- unless you
are policy base routing based on end-to-end IP connectivity you're
operating in fantasy land. Say a site with a local area network with
workstations that hangs off a regional net member site with UUCP is not
going to be subject to policy based routing based on the traffic's true
origin, rather it will be based on the origin of the site that the UUCP
site calls into).
Geoff
