[1381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects at NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heiliger)
Wed Jan 3 19:49:04 1996
From: "Jonathan Heiliger" <loco@mfsdatanet.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:44:27 -0800
In-Reply-To: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>
"Re: Interconnects at NANOG" (Jan 3, 3:43pm)
To: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 3, 3:43pm, Dave Siegel wrote:
> When the TLA's are expanded into their actual meanings, Metropolitan Area
> Exchange, and Network Access Point, there does not appear to be a great deal
> of difference between the two, except that one is a term that MFS Datanet
> started, and the other is one that the government sited as the term for the
> exchanges they were helping to fund/promote.
I've also heard a rumor that at least part of the convention was due to the MAE
being called Metropolitan Area Ethernet which was, again, I believe coined by
Andrew Partan of UUNET.
Perhaps term IXP, IntereXchange Point could be used. Too many acronyms has
long been a trend in technology. :-)
-jh-
