[9672] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Telecommunications Competition Act of Washington State
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sun Jan 16 03:28:15 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: raisch@internet.com (Rob Raisch The Internet Company)
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 02:26:14 -0600 (CST)
Cc: ittai@ans.net, karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9401151203.A11829-0100000@hmmm> from "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" at Jan 15, 94 12:47:03 pm
> On Sat, 15 Jan 1994, Ittai Hershman wrote:
>
> > Now that Internet services are a competitive market, the CIX -- as a
> > trade association of commercial Internet service providers -- is the
> > next logical step.
> >
> > -Ittai (fellow CIX Association member)
>
> "Trade Association of Commercial Internet Service Providers" sounds
> awfully grand. Too bad it is not. There are assumptions in my mind
> --perhaps incorrect ones-- about the services a "trade association"
> provides. The CIX is not a trade assocaition in any sense. It is a
> temporary and exceedingly fragile border connectivity arrangement.
> Calling it anything else misrepresents the truth.
For "exceedingly fragile" it seems to be doing pretty damn well. I had full
CIX connectivity and routing within <minutes> of our T1 line coming up.
I've also been enjoying that connectivity for quite some time through my
previous provider and three different companies.
Doesn't look too fragile to me. In fact, the CIX remained stable during the
ANS outages of a year or so ago, and seems to manage to keep running even in
the face of adversity.
There are some disadvantages of a collapsed backbone (a fire wipes you out,
for example), but the lack of complexity in getting a hundred routers to
play nice isn't one of them.
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