[9145] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: an Internet buying coop?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Sun Dec 19 15:03:56 1993
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 12:03:16 -0800
To: nii_agenda@civicnet.org, com-priv@psi.com, communet@nysernet.org
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
The recent discussions we've been having about the CIX, and the PSI /
Buffalo Free-Net problems, and now the coop note have me thinking...
SOME providers are, IMHO, overly paranoid about competition etc. The
solution is to get the umbrella organization to understand the problem and
to push the solution through to all of its members.
So here's my off-the-cuff, first thought of a crazy idea...
Why don't we push the CIX to add something to their member agreements that
would require their members to allow their subscribers to re-sell access or
somesuch. Of course, it would likely also have to say that doing so would
only be allowed if the subscriber also joined the CIX, but we could also
push for membership fees based on number of expected annual resales (why
should ANS pay the same $10K as XYZ Coop reselling to three users?).
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Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
(415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
