On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:59, Dan Lanciani wrote: > Initially they leveraged > the old notion of authorized users to claim that you had no right to connect > to the new and improved internet unless you were their customer.
No, the claimed you had no right to use their equipment to connect to the internet unless you were their customer. Considering how much the equipment cost (remember: 1993), that's not really surprising. > Then they > created routing cabals to insure that your routes would not be carried unless > you were in the club. Right. $100 for 4MB of RAM; and you want then to route your /32... > but the zeal with which they went after "indirect customers" (both in contract > terms and in practice) suggests otherwise. Depends on what you bought. If you wanted to share a connection with unrelated parties, you could buy that. It just cost a lot of money. Because it cost a lot of money to provide it. > At the time I (and I assume many > others) had hoped that the internet would evolve in a more mesh-connected > pattern Mesh routing does not scale, especially if you allow anyone anywhere to announce a /32. Connecting 10 people with a hub in the center is easy, and only requires one copy of the routing table. Connecting them in a mesh requires ten copies of a larger table. If you know a way around this, I'd love to hear it. Especially since at some point I hope to build a somewhat-meshed wireless network. > with access being "free" in the sense that you would have to pay only > for the wire to a friendly partner. If mesh routing scaled, this would be quite possible. But since it doesn't, someone needs to pay for the core(s). > Profit in the ISP business has historically > come from making people pay for something that would be mostly free were it > not for the efforts of the companies making the profit... Right. I suggest you get into the business, then. You could make quite a bit of money since it'd be mostly free for you. I guess this low cost of business explains all the ISPs that have gone out of business lately. Wait. That doesn't make sense.
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