[8603] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: CIX connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Thu Nov 25 15:27:14 1993
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 15:23:30 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: fair@apple.com, bmanning@is.rice.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From: bmanning@is.rice.edu (William Manning)
> Erik E. Fair sez:
> > If you want to be pedantic about where the NSFNET AUP applies, you can
> > replace "NSFNET backbone" with "NSFNET-sponsored network attachment points."
> Although that may be true right now, the outstanding solicitation explicitly
> removes this constraint... The NSF sponsered NAPs have -NO- NSF aup period.
To make the implication clear, nobody will then have any excuse to deny
routing to anybody. Those needing an excuse to deny service to their
own customers to create a confrontation must have figured they'd better
do it now.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
