[536] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Fri Apr 5 03:52:59 1991
To: Ittai Hershman <ittai@shemesh.stern.nyu.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 03 Apr 91 16:20:32 -0500.
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 14:33:45 PST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Ittai,
>Do you mean join a CIX member (choosing one of three options) or join
>a CIX directly? My understanding is that CIX membership was only open
>to for-profit companies selling commercial service.
I meant the second option, i.e. having our local regional net join the CIX
directly -- after all its right here in the Bay Area. Our local regional
is currently run out of a university communications office (i.e. they run
the telephone company and networking on campus) and have been talking for
some time about spinning off to become a stand alone Networking, Inc.
The first option would also be a possibility, i.e. continue to be run out
of the campus comm office and join AlterNet/CERFNet/PSInet in toto as
a regional and there-by gain ipso facto CIX access.
There could also be a third scenario, implying either of the two above,
with a PSI/NYSERNet style arrangement being made, where our local regional
net contracts with one of the extant commercial networks to operate,
managet, etc the net for them.
It will be interesting to see "under the CIX hood" -- both in theory and
practice (i.e. what are the rules to pony up an join & how does it operate
technically, equipmently, routingly, etc). I am hopeful the CIX parties
will present them to The Networking Community (as a model of how networking
should be) when they are finalized.
Geoff
--
"Computer scientists don't have to worry about the world. They don't have to
develop theories of the world and then build tools to test it. Rather, they
just build tools to satisfy their own worlds. Ask a computer science graduate
student what his or her thesis is and the best they can answer is that the
program or machine they are working on will be a good thing to have."
-- Chuck Thacker, in "Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored,
the First Personal Computer.
