The Commercial Veil (1992-1994): Concealment in the New Economy

Short summary

A narrative retelling of the commercialization of the internet from 1992 to 1994, focusing on the dissolution of NSFNET's Acceptable Use Policy and the rise of the Commercial Internet Exchange. It describes the tension between academic researchers and commercial interests as routing tables swelled with non-academic traffic. The piece also touches on CIDR implementation and the collapse of Soviet computing infrastructure.

• •NSFNET's Acceptable Use Policy eroded as commercial traffic flooded academic networks in 1992-1993
• •The Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) pioneered horizontal peering, replacing hierarchical NSFNET routing
• •CIDR was implemented to combat classful address exhaustion driven by unmanaged commercial sprawl

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