[2389] in North American Network Operators' Group
the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Apr 5 11:19:02 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 96 15:32:57 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <bsimpson@morningstar.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
> And they solicit our customers, sigh.
>
> And someone with 2 T1s to Sprint has been saying "We are *the* Internet
> Backbone in South Jersey".
>
> Everyone (of importance) agrees that in order to claim you're a backbone
> you have to (now, not a year ago) be connected to at least 2 public NAPs/MAEs
> and have at least one circuit that runs at DS3 or higher speed.
>
No, that is not correct.
A US Internet "backbone" is one which connects to ALL the NAP/MAEs in
the US. Not just two. All of them.
Everyone else is just a "regional", of one size or another.
If anyone solicits your customers saying otherwise, report them for
false advertising to the FTC, and sue the bastards.
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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