[8495] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Maybe GE should show NSF how to do it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sat Nov 20 21:16:22 1993
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 93 21:10:24 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: AIKEN@ccc.nersc.gov
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From: AIKEN@ccc.nersc.gov
> Sicne you are advocating other networks servcie providers to join the
> CIX then maybe GE could lead the way and show NSF and others how it is done.
> IT always amazes me how some poeple are always trying to tell other
> networks and organizatiosn how to run their networks, while they sit
> in the back seat. I know that GE has a large network so why not get GE
> to connect to the CIX? BTW - this is not to say that NSF should or
> should not join the CIX.
Sorry to pull the rug out from under you Bob ... but back in mid
October I contacted Bill Washburn for help in convincing GE to join.
For personal reasons of mine of which he is aware and that I will fill
you in on in private mail, nothing has come of this.
Note though that I never suggested NSF should join the CIX; I find the
notion a bit bizarre.
I presume your rationale for GE joining the CIX would be GE Information
Systems (GEIS) networking, not our internal network. Our internal
network is precluded from exchanging packets with the Internet by both
GE policy and the agreement we signed with the NIC when our internal
network was registered. No packets exchanged, no rationale to join the
CIX. GEIS does not, to my knowledge, do any IP networking. Again, no
exchange, no rationale to join the CIX. I would like GEIS to do IP
networking and join the CIX, which is why I contacted Bill.
For the record, I have never had any association with GEIS's current
networking.
Also for the record, I am here as a citizen, expressing my own personal
views. Where GE has an expressed corporate opinion of which I am
aware, I do not use their facilities to challenge it. However, one of
the nice things about such a diverse company is that treasured views of
one business are often orthogonal to those of another. There tend to
be few genuinely corporate opinions.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
