[17371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Ashdown)
Fri May 29 16:59:24 1998
From: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>
To: john@shutter.net
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:53:21 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805291305.JAA02525@fstop.shutter.net> from "John Golovich" at May 29, 98 09:09:30 am
John Golovich said once upon a time:
>
>In the Detroit area alot of smaller ISPs are looking to create a
>peering between each other to create shorter router for wherever
>traffic needs to go (ie. transit routing).
>
>This plan has been placed on hold and almost officially shelved
>because alot of the smaller ISPs dont see the need for an AS number.
>
>It is like trying to get your budget increased. If the fee for AS
>numbers was removed this peering would probably be already completed.
Couldn't you just use internal AS numbers to talk to each other? I agree,
its not the best solution, but it would at least get you on the road.
