[9943] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NSF AUP restrictions (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Humphrey)
Fri Jan 28 22:49:45 1994
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 22:46:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
Reply-To: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In any event, I understand that the policies in place vary
from provider to provider. Nova Scotia's regional network
(NSTN) actually encourages commercial traffic to help share
costs for academics. Fonorola is clearing going to allow
and encourage commercial traffic, and so on. I trust that
the new effort to define a CIX will allow the rest of us
to stop worrying about such issues and get on with the job.
It would be easier to get some non-AUP connectivity up to
the Great White North if the lease line rates on the Canadian
side of things were not so expensive. We priced a connection
to a firm up there, and the cost from Washington DC to the Peace
Bridge (near Toronto) were reasonable; the cost from Peace Bridge to
north of Toronto was something like 6 or 7 times the cost of the US
segment. Makes it hard for small firms to get into the biz I will bet.
I wonder how many other potential service providers are
making such decisions on a daily basis right now, and what
it's costing us in lost services and functionality? The
hardest loss to measure is the opportunity that was never
realized...
Quite a bit of cost, I would imagine.
I was once assured by a old farmer in the outback of
Australia that the winding dirt roads I had to traverse to
get to his place were "much safer than those American
highways". His argument was that all the winding kept you
awake and on your toes and since you couldn't go so fast,
accidents were less dangerous. I can't say I was
convinced, but then again, I did make it home in one
piece... :-)
Might be something to it; anyone who has shot an approach into
National (Wash DC) knows why it has a great safety record (one
of the best in the US); NOBODY sleeps coming into National. A
straight up roller coaster all the way, restricted airspace all
over the map, and a twisty river that defines your flight path.
To quote a pilot who has made over 1000 landings at national:
"Balls Nasty" Paying attention can help safety issues I guess...
Doug
