[8483] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Puzzled thoughts re ANS goals for CIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sat Nov 20 14:22:07 1993
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 14:16:38 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: tully@cscns.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, ddern@world.std.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From: tully@cscns.com (Ed Tully)
> I usually consider myself a fairly intelligent person, but I have to tell
> all of you involved in the past two days about the CIX, CITA, et al, that
> I lost it in terms of trying to follow what the hell this discussion is
> all about. I think I began to follow, then entered Adams, Dern, Ittai and
> a few others, and the thread got lost. I know I am not alone, because
> there are many of us that have to lurk a while to grasp what is being said
> and what the background is -- but I gotta tell ya, this one takes the
> cake! Would one of you be kind enuf to summarize the "discussion" since
> Ittai announcement about ANS joining the CIX? and, Ittai, since ANS
> joined, wouldn't that mean that ANS CO+RE is also a member, since ANS owns
> CO+RE?
Ed, there's nobody around capable of giving a neutral description. The
only people paying close enough attention to understand are those who
have stakes in the outcomes. There are several threads intertwined,
and the number of combinations of views is enormous. It took me about
a year before I felt comfortable following this list.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
