[9336] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Wed Dec 29 17:16:04 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 17:09:04 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: sadler@lachman.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From sadler@lachman.com Wed Dec 29 16:53:18 1993
> In <9312292126.AA04905@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com>, stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com (Dick St. Peters) wrote:
> > Matthew, somebody answered the part about the CIX: you only need to
> > pay the $10K if you sell to "multiple geographic areas".
>
> But what defines a "geographic area"? Is it a city? A metropolitan area?
> A state? A region? A nation?
I publicly asked this question in almost exactly the same words, and
nobody bothered to answer. However, even though it is easily possible
to construct scenarios where a strict reading could rule out almost
anybody, the context suggests the CIX was trying to allow for the small
not-really-commercial kind of banding together that's the spirit of most
of the coop notions that have been considered here. In other words, if
you can't afford service on your own, but you and some neighbors or
not-too-widely-scattered friends can by banding together, the providers
and the CIX aren't going to penalize you for becoming customers.
It would be nice to get a clarification from the CIX.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
