Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!baird!jim From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) Newsgroups: uk.misc,eunet.followup,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Internet routing Europe - USA -} Europe... Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 90 18:55:15 GMT References: <1990Aug30.091435.1982@ircam.ircam.fr <6190@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1213@vision.UUCP> Sender: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: chris@vision.UUCP's message of 4 Sep 90 12:27:26 GMT In article <1213@vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes: Not only can't you use tcp/ip over JANET, but commercial sites (in my experience) can't even use JANET as it stands - not even for real money. So no NIFTP, etc. This is untrue. Commercial sites may use JANET provided they have good reasons for doing so, essentially collaboration with an academic site on a research project. JANET cannot be used for purely commercial traffic (shunting data between a company's offices - or two distinct commercial sites - in Exeter and Aberdeen say). The rules are roughly similar to those for use of NSFnet: "free" government funded networks must not subsidise commercial traffic. It's more or less OK for a company to connect via PSS through a PSS/JANET gateway to an academic site and exchange data. In fact, this is how some of the big commercial sites get their news. Jim