[172886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jul 12 14:08:48 2014
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:08:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=qZg-=f9y2SbptYn6xNbCt1RBA49-3AQ9uyrndCbtgQug@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
> I'm sorry. This is a networking mailing list, not a
> feel-good-about-yourself mailing list. From the perspective of the
> internet routing table, if you don't have your own AS number, you are
> completely indistinguishable from your upstream. Period. As far as BGP
> is concerned, you don't exist. Only the upstream ISP exists.
Those things are all true, Matt. But they are orthogonal to "are you an
ISP" (for any definition of ISP).
Cheers,
-- jra
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