[9572] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Conditions of NSFnet privatization apparently not Enforced
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Tue Jan 11 13:55:03 1994
From: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:54:24 PST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9401102100.aa23002@pandora.sf.ca.us>; from "Gordon Cook" at Jan 10, 94 9:00 pm
Gordon:
>The letter of September 10 listed several criteria that Advanced Network and
>Services would have to meet. Namely:
>
>QUOTE: 1) such users will reimburse the new corporation [ANS] for at least the
>full average cost of the connection, the added traffic, and additional related
>support, and
>
>2) the reimbursements will be used to enhance the network infrastructure and
>services, in order that the level of service provided by MERIT under its
>Cooperative Agreement with the NSF not be diminished.
>
>NSF and MERIT will agree on the technical means of compliance with 2) above."
>UNQUOTE
... etc.
By the time this happened the battle lines weren't as clearly drawn as
they are today. The principal objective was not to recover money (I
doubt NSF is even able to take money back), but to protect the services
NSF is paying for. Politics aside, do you have any indication of
service degradations of the services NSF pays for *due to the ANSnet
customers*, particularly those outside of the R&E community, but
attached as ANS clients? Is the current NSFNET service in jeopardy due
to them ANSnet attachments? If that were the case, perhaps as indicated
by complaints from NSFNET backbone clients (who typically know quite
well what's going on with the backbone and are being kept informed
about technical details by ANS and Merit), we would clearly have an
issue at hand.
Hans-Werner
