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From daemon Sun Jan 30 13:43:45 1994 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 15:38:40 CST-600 From: Dave Nordlund <NORDLUND@ccstaff.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Confusion To: com-priv@psi.com Message-Id: <517D84AF8@ccstaff.cc.ukans.edu> X-Mailer: PMail v3.0 (R1a) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal
Folks I am working with a company to form a network to resell Internet access. Years of experience with the existing NSF based Internet does not prepare me for the present confusion I see in the commercial Internet world. 1. I am forced to assume that CIX membership does not connect me to the NSF backbone therefore I am missing half of the Internet! If this is true, how do I connect to the other half? 2. With CIDR and Number aggregation, we are expected to provide our customer networks a number range from our larger range. However, we cannot get a number range from INTERNIC. They expect us to get ours from "our supplier". Is this CIX? Or do you have to contract with a "supplier" who has NSF Backbone connections to get a IP number range? I guess I thought that we would be a supplier! What am I missing? Dave Nordlund nordlund@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu University of Kansas 913/864-0450 Computing Services FAX 913/864-0485 Lawrence, KS 66045