[9658] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Telecommunications Competition Act of Washington State
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Sat Jan 15 15:44:12 1994
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:36:40 EST
From: Ittai Hershman <ittai@ans.net>
To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 15 Jan 1994 12:18:47 -0600 (CST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
MCSNet's T1 came online last evening, and with it FULL CIX connectivity
Congratulations, Karl. I am not sure, however, what you mean by "FULL
CIX connectivity"? The CIX, in so far as I have been told, provides
equal services to all members in a neutral fashion.
I saw another posting of yours (on a.i.s. I think) in which you state
you have FIX access. I am curious what that means since the FIX is an
exchange point for Fed nets and has a AUP-like traffic restrictions.
Or should I just ignore the marketing talk?
you know, it is really impressive when
we can get universal connectivity with one T1 line from a national phone
carrier. Seems that the wonderful word - "competition" - has done what all
the Government regulators, and the NSF, utterly failed to do --
does it not?
Or have I missed something?
Well, maybe. The NSFNET Backbone Service supports over 15,000 networks.
The number of networks available on the CIX router, is significantly
smaller. And the number of those that are only available via the CIX
is even smaller than that (1019 to be precise, according to my latest
information).
I think the bottom line here is that the commercial Internet became
possible because the NSF primed the technology with the R&E Internet.
Now that Internet services are a competitive market, the CIX -- as a
trade association of commercial Internet service providers -- is the
next logical step. There is no need to promote one at the expense of
the other.
-Ittai (fellow CIX Association member)
