[9147] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: an Internet buying coop?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Dec 19 15:33:26 1993
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 15:26:37 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: tenney@netcom.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, communet@nysernet.org, nii_agenda@civicnet.org
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
> 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?).
Ah, there we have it. I was wondering how long before someone argued
that these coops would be resellers that had to join the CIX. That's
of course precisely the problem I've been complaining about on com-priv
for weeks.
Why not just go all the way? CIX members become only those providers
that physically attach to the CIX; the CIX charges them enough to
support the CIX; they recover that in the price they charge their
customers. This way, what the coop pays to support the CIX is
determined by the free market - by what deal it can get from a provider.
Why are people agaqinst this? What is wrong with it?
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
