[165165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vancouver IXP - VanTX - BCNet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Aug 21 13:27:00 2013
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
> On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:56 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> >> Correct. The ones in black are exchanges, the ones in gray are
> >> things
> >> that someone asserted to have been exchanges, or asserted will be
> >> exchanges.
> >
> > glad it's all so black and white, well grey. :)
>
> When different people are asserting different things (i.e. that
> something is, and is not, an IXP) the situation is, by definition,
> contentious. We move things into the "definitely an exchange" and show
> it in black text when we're able to observe a number of things:
Randy wasn't shooting at you about your definitions.
He was shooting at you for assuming people people were reading a technical
mailing list in a non-text format. It's all black to me, too. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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