[9702] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
bill summary: Telecommunications Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Mon Jan 17 11:09:20 1994
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 10:37:01 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: u.washington.edu!adamfast@netcom.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: adam fast's message of Sat, 15 Jan 1994 09:26:19 -0800 (PST) <Pine.3.89.9401150925.D2734-0100000@goren1.u.washington.edu>
> in the telephone example, this would be a point where a local telephone
>company would arrange to exchange local traffic with the rest of the
>telephone network. it does not specify that /either/ company has to
>conduct their switching at this point.
...excuse me, but, if you have a POP open for connection, you need to
do switching/routing there (you theoretically could have one net
connecting all your public POPs, and one router joining your POP net
to your main net; but performance would go through the floor). Right?
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