[172888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Jul 12 14:16:42 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=pn20Ni1bH671cgViB_1Yq-dADWHBS1MSm5+L34xvjQmA@mail.gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
> To the core of the internet, if you do not have
> an AS number, you do not exist. If your business
> does not have an AS number *as far as the BGP
> speaking core of the internet is concerned, there
> is no representation for your entity, no matter
> what acronym you attach to it.*
>
> There. Confusion over. You can call yourself an
> ISP until you're blue in the face, for all the good
> it does you; the incontrovertible point I'm making
> is that you don't exist as a recognizably separate
> entity from your upstream provider from the network
> perspective.
Ok. Correct.
From the viewpoint of the context of this thread... why was that
pertinent again? :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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