[9428] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
a "keeper of the Internet"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yakov@watson.ibm.com)
Wed Jan 5 08:41:40 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 08:41:03 EST
From: yakov@watson.ibm.com
To: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com, com-priv@uu.psi.com
Ref: Your note of Tue, 4 Jan 94 17:46:14 -0800
Eliot,
>Currently that requires the use of *one* IXC. Yakov pointed out
>that this is a political impossibility; yet it is a technical requirement
>for proper IP routing.
>
>Now where does that leave us ?
Logically it leaves us with the following two avenues to explore:
(a) a possibility of deploying a single IXC that covers between 60-100
different countries on several continents
(b) the need to re-adjust our technical requirements to better fit
the real world
Rather than spending our energy trying to convince each other which of
the avenues is the right one, let me suggest that we'll proceed according to
our convictions and measure our accomplishments (success or failure)
a year or two down the road.
Yakov
P.S. For the sake of completeness let me repeat what I said before:
"I doubt the feasibility of "one and only one backbone" that
covers more than 100 countries."
