[1385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects at NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Wed Jan 3 21:31:16 1996
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: loco@mfsdatanet.com (Jonathan Heiliger)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:27:32 -0800 (PST)
Cc: dsiegel@rtd.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9601031644.ZM7852@tacostand.mfsdatanet.com> from "Jonathan Heiliger" at Jan 3, 96 04:44:27 pm
>
> 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.
>
I think I told John Hardie a couple years back (when MAE-East) went
to FDDI) that we could still use MAE as Metro Area Exchange.
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--bill
