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From: mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: eunet.followup,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet routing Europe -> USA -> Europe...
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.162402.13659@ircam.ircam.fr>
Date: 31 Aug 90 16:24:02 GMT
References: <1990Aug30.091435.1982@ircam.ircam.fr> <867@iiasa.UUCP>
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)
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Wolf Paul writes:
> Since these leased lines are not really charged by volume but rather
> have a fixed monthly charge regardless of traffic, it probably does not
> affect the cost a whole lot.

Well, it is not true insofar as the end user (which I am).  As it
appears, the French backbone will charge us Internet mail by volume.
It has to do, apparently, with the cost of some line whose cost is
fixed, but which they intend to share "equally well" among users -- ie
the more you use it the more you pay for it.

He adds:
> The Austrian branch of EUnet will shortly be connected to the Internet
> by a leased line from tuvie to mcsun [in Holland]

Too bad.  Although there is a line from France to Northern Yurop, there is
no connection for academic sites from France to there.  There is no rerouting
through anywhere else, either.  So this means that THERE IS NO INTERNET
CONNECTION between any sites connected to mcsun and France.  Mail goes around,
I hope, but since I did not get to send any yet who knows.

I suppose that when the various backbones sort their differences, we'll have
to pay so as to get to Northern Y.  I hope *they* will have to pay to get to
us, but I suspect there is more interest in the connection from us out than
the converse.  So we loose..  Unless we give up on Northern Y. altogether
and look as always in the US for software.  So much for CEE, connectedness
and other grandiose ideas.