[9339] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Dec 29 17:37:16 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 14:26:24 -0800
From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Many months ago I sent the following to the list
(This is from the point of view of a network service
provider who IS a CIX member, but which wants to be
able to sell service to other people who might then
resell service)
(the CIX direct-customers-only-policy is)...
... EXACTLY the sort of thing that is contrary to the idea of
simply being able to sell unlimited, charged only by bandwidth, access
to the Internet. There should be no difference between me selling 25
connections to the Internet, and me selling 5 "wholesale" connections to
5 people who each resell to 4 people below them. In both cases there's
25 new sites on the net (with 25 new networks announced to the CIX)...
but to do the latter, CIX demands an additional $50,000/year from us all.
and if those 5 people are each trying to resell 14.4kbps PPP connections
to their 4 friends, the extra $10,000/year/each is WAY out of line
If I want all my customers, and their customers, to have CIX routing,
can I get around the CIX "rules" by charging each of the bottom-level
customers (who are really customers of one of my 5 wholesale customers)
a dollar a year, so that they're now also "my direct customers" ?
-matthew kaufman
