[ih] AUP revision to allow commercial traffic

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

On 22/12/2015 14:19, John Curran wrote:
> While there was some purely commercial interconnection with the
> NSFNET, this
> was predominantly via the brokered interconnection with the CIX and
> commercial
> networks not participating in the CIX were not routed on the NSFNET
> infrastructure
> in general (e.g.
> <http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/mjts/1992-06/msg00015.html>).

I am glad you mentioned CIX because they were a key catalyst to the
changes in AUPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Internet_eXchange

It's important to note that a lot of things were taking place
simultaneously so it's a bit hard to get an exact chronology & date. On
paper AUPs were there. In practice, a lot of this official paperwork
stuff was left aside. In contrast, policing in X.25 & X.400 services was
much tighter... perhaps leading to their downfall?

Kindest regards,

Olivier

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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html