[9883] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill text draft 2: Telecommunications Competition Act (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Tue Jan 25 15:48:28 1994
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 15:18:44 EST
From: Ittai Hershman <ittai@ans.net>
To: Jeffrey Sterling <jeffgs@netcom.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:09:58 -0800 (PST)
My point exactly the major reason for the commercial growth in the
Internet is due to competition in the long distance market, because it is
deregulated and interconnected ala CIX.
I am afraid this is not at all clear. The numbers, in fact,
demonstrate that the predominant growth in the Internet, at least as
seen from within the United States, is growth in the NSFNET Backbone
Service and not the CIX.
Attached is a table identifying the affiliation of network numbers
(i.e. destination routes) in the ANSNet router tables over a three
month period.
DATE CIX ANS NSFNET
Only CO+RE AUP
8-Oct-93 925 738 15429
15-Oct-93 1139 814 15586
22-Oct-93 1132 845 15863
29-Oct-93 1116 898 16082
5-Nov-93 1160 939 16440
12-Nov-93 1147 988 16950
19-Nov-93 1152 1022 17206
26-Nov-93 1098 1141 17383
3-Dec-93 1086 1177 17764
10-Dec-93 1146 1228 18135
17-Dec-93 1060 1335 18540
24-Dec-93 1046 1366 18924
7-Jan-94 1032 1389 19457
14-Jan-94 1019 1462 19757
It is worth pointing out that since the CIX Association installed a
filtering gateway to regulate traffic to and from ANSNet, there has
been a significant increase in the conversion of customer networks
from commercial service providers migrating from AUP-free CIX-only
routing to NSFNET (AUP compliant) status.
This demonstrates that the biggest danger to the future of the
commercial Internet is that some service providers appear willing to
sacrifice global commercial connectivity because they are unwilling to
conduct business with each other bilaterally and/or prefer to use a
taxpayer-paid government service rather than engage in business.
If we, the commercial Internet service providers cannot get our act
together, then that is surely the road to regulation of the Internet.
It is my hope that the CIX Association will rise to the challenge and
begin acting as the neutral trade association it was incorporated to
be, which should provide an environment which promotes bilateral
business relationships among members and promotes the mutual interests
of its members (and their customers) in Washington D.C.
-Ittai
