[2450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sat Apr 6 08:39:00 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: barry@singnet.com.sg (Barry Raveendran Greene)
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 08:33:44 -0500 (EST)
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu, pferguso@cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <01BB23BA.B0D8AD60@barry.singnet.com.sg> from "Barry Raveendran Greene" at Apr 6, 96 12:49:12 pm
> From: Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 1996 1:15 AM
> To: Michael Dillon
> Cc: pferguso@cisco.com; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: the Internet Backbone
>
> > Are they an NSP?
> > Do they operate their own national backbone?
> > Can they provide national transit over their own network infrastructure?
> > Do they interconnect with other NSP's who satisfy the previous two
> > conditions at most of the public exchange points?
>
> Where public exchange points == {MAE-East, MAE-West, Pennsauken, PacBell NAP,
> Chicago NAP, and arguably the CIX router/cloud}.
>
> And NSPISP, NXIX, STIX, HKIX, D-GIX, F-GIX, CIXP, LINX, etc. etc. etc.
No, the point is that {MCI, Sprint, ANS, UUNET, PSI, AGIS} would fail the
test if you include all of the other, smaller, public exchange points.
> Barry
Avi
